| 词组 | take back |
| 释义 | take back 1. take back sth • take sth back to return a book or something else to the library or shop that you borrowed it from: ▪ Can you take my library books back for me? ▪ I've got to take these videos back to Blockbuster Video before they close. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑return 2. take back sth • take sth back to return something to the shop that you bought it from, because it is unsuitable or of poor quality: ▪ These trousers are a bit small - I'll have to take them back. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑return take back sth • take sth back if a shop takes back goods that you have bought there, they agree to give you your money back because the goods are unsuitable or poor quality: ▪ They'll take it back if you've still got the receipt. 3. take back sth • take sth back to admit that you were wrong to say something: ▪ Dad leaped to his feet and glared at me, "You will take that remark back and apologize immediately!" he roared. ▪ "I don't love you any more!" she cried. Immediately she wished that she could take it back, but it was too late. ■ SIMILAR TO: retract formal 4. take sb back to make you remember a period of time in the past: ▪ That song 'Lili Marlene' takes me back a bit - we used to sing it during the war. + to ▪ The prosecutor took her back to that terrible day once more. "What did his face look like?" he asked in a hushed voice. 5. take sb back if a story, film etc takes you back to a time in the past, it is about events that happened at that time: ▪ The latest film from Merchant Ivory, takes us back to 18th century France, when Thomas Jefferson found love in pre-revolutionary Paris. 6. take back sth • take sth back to get control or possession of something again after losing it, especially by using force: ▪ In 1847, the Maya rose against the Europeans, and took back 90 percent of their ancestral lands. 7. take back sb • take sb back if you take someone back after an argument or after separating from them, you agree to let them live or work with you again: ▪ She once told me that if Reggie ever left her for another woman, she'd never take him back. ▪ "I got my old job again," she said. "Mrs James has taken me back." 8. take back sth • take sth back AmE if you wish that you could take something back, you wish that you had not done it: ▪ Are there any of her TV shows that she would take back? "Yes - the first three. They were disastrous." ▪ That one play lost us the game. I wish I could take it back. |
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