词汇 | go back |
释义 | Phr V go back goes, going, went, gone go back to return to a place where you were or where you have been beforeI'd been away from Canada for three years and thought it was time I went back. often + toWhen are you going back to Paris?'So you didn't enjoy your meal?' 'No, we won't be going back there again!' if schools or students go back, the schools are open and the students start going to lessons again after the holidaysusually + adv/prepThe schools all go back in the second week of April.When do you go back to university? informal if something that you have bought or borrowed goes back, you return it to the place from which you got itThat shirt's going back - I found a hole in it.When do these books have to go back? go back sth informal if people go back a number of years, they have been friends for that many years or since that timeStef and Delia go back almost twenty years.Trevor and me - we go back a long way. (= have known each other for a long time) if something goes back a number of years, it was started or made at that timeBritain's links with this country go back centuries. if you go back a number of years, you think about how something was at that timeGoing back a couple of hundred years, this place would not have been inhabited. ► see go back to■ OPPOSITE: break up6. go back if something that you have bought or borrowed goes back, you take it back to the place where you got it, for example because you want to change it, or you have finished using it: I think these jeans will have to go back - they're a bit too small. Don't forget the car has to go back tomorrow - we only hired it for a week.7. go back if workers go back, they start working again after a strike. A strike is a period of time when workers refuse to work in order to try to get more money, better working conditions etc: The miners say they won't go back unless they get more money.■ SIMILAR TO: return to work8. go back a long way/many years etc if two people go back a long way, for many years etc, they have known each other for a long time: Annie and Richard go back a long way - at least fifteen years.9. the clocks go back when the clocks go back in the autumn, the time officially changes so that it is one hour earlier than it was before: The clocks go back some time in October, don't they?■ OPPOSITE: the clocks go forward go back1. To return to some place or thing. I can't believe you're going back to school after all these years. 2. To retreat, thus undoing one's prior forward progress. No, we never reached our destination—we had to go back because the storm was so bad. 3. To revert to a particular state or role. I don't want to go back to getting coffee for people—I want an actual job as a screenwriter. 4. To stretch back or extend to a particular point or thing. How far back in our lineage does this illness go? I can't see how far back this closet goes, but it seems pretty small. 5. To have known someone for a particular period of time. Those two go back 50 years—they've known each other since elementary school. 6. To have existed for a particular period of time. This product is not new—it goes back to the 1800s. go backto return to the place of origin. That's where I came from, and I'll never go back. I don't want to go back. go back1. Return, retrace one's steps; also, return to a former condition. For example, I'm going back to the haunts of my youth, or We want to go back to the old way of doing things. [First half of 1500s] 2. Extend backward in space or time, as in Our land goes back to the stone wall, or The family name goes back to Norman times. [Second half of 1600s] Also see go back on. go backv. 1. To return or revert to something: I'd never go back to that restaurant after the awful meal we had. After lunch, I went back home and slept. The children go back to school in the fall. That book needs to go back to the library. 2. To reverse direction: We were going to drive across the bridge, but it was so windy, we decided to go back. 3. go back to To resume some activity: After looking around, the deer went back to eating. I turned off my alarm and went back to sleep. 4. go back to To return one's attention to something; refer to something: Let's go back to an interesting comment you made earlier. If we go back to her earlier books, you can see how her style has changed. 5. To consider or refer to some past time, especially in a narrative: In chapter four, the book goes back to the main character's childhood. 6. To have existed since some time; date back: This house goes back to the 1800s. That idea goes back to Thomas Aquinas. 7. To have been acquainted for some period of time: We're old friends—we go back at least 20 years. He and I go way back—we used to play together as children. 8. go back on To fail to carry out some promise or commitment: I hope you don't go back on your promise to help me out. 9. go back on To claim that something said earlier is untrue; retract or take back something: The witness went back on his story when the lawyer questioned him. The researcher said she would not go back on her original claim. |
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