| 词组 | go back |
| 释义 | go back 1. go back to return to a place where you have been before, or to the place where you were until recently: ▪ They left Africa in 1962, and they never went back. ▪ I have to go back home at the end of the month. + to ▪ We went back to the hotel for dinner. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑return 2. go back if something goes back to a time in the past, it was started or had its origin then + to ▪ Parts of the castle here go back to the twelfth century. ▪ Its a type of comedy that goes back to the early days of the cinema. sth goes back a long way (=it started a long time ago and has existed for a long time) ▪ They're a very old family - their name goes back a long way. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑date back 3. go back • go back sth to consider or discuss things that happened at a time in the past, especially a long time ago: ▪ Let's go back a few million years and look at the time of the dinosaurs. + to ▪ To understand psychiatric problems, you often have to go back to the patient's childhood. 4. you can't go back/there's no going back if you can't go back or there's no going back, you cannot change your situation back to how it used to be: ▪ Are you sure you want to do this? If we sell the house, there's no going back. ▪ "Once you're part of our gang, you're always part of it," grinned Marley. "You can't go back. 5. go back if schools or students go back, the schools open and the students start studying again after the holidays: ▪ When do the schools go back? + to ▪ The kids go back to school in the first week of September. ► see ↑go back to ■ OPPOSITE: break up 6. 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 work 8. 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 |
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