| 词组 | turn back |
| 释义 | turn back 1. turn back to stop when you are travelling and start going back in the direction that you came from, especially because it is dangerous or impossible for you to continue: ▪ The Captain had been advised to turn back, due to very bad weather conditions. 2. turn sb back • turn back sb to make someone stop when they are travelling and go back in the direction they came from, especially because it is impossible or dangerous for them to continue: ▪ Border patrols were turning back as many as thirty thousand refugees a day. ▪ Police used tear gas to turn back demonstrators who marched towards the National Palace on Friday afternoon. 3. turn back usually negative if you cannot turn back, you cannot change your plans and do something different can't turn back ▪ We've already spent so much money that we can't turn back. there's no turning back ▪ Stubbs nervously accepted the offer, realizing that there was no turning back now. 4. turn back the clock/turn the clock back if someone wants to turn the clock back, they want to go back to the past, for example because they think things were better then or because they wish that something had not happened: ▪ The Minister was accused of wanting to turn back the clocks to the 1950s, when most women didn't work outside the home. 5. turn back sth • turn sth back to fold over one part of a piece of paper or material: ▪ Tabitha turned back the corner of the page, closed the book and lay down. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑turn over |
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