单词 | to carry back |
释义 | > as lemmasto carry back to carry back 1. transitive. To cause (a person) to remember or think of something; to cause (a person) to return to a state, situation, etc., which existed in the past. With a phrase introduced by to indicating the thing remembered, past state, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [verb (transitive)] > carry or cast back into the past reducea1620 antedate1633 to carry back1644 retroject1850 1644 S. Bolton Tossed Ship To Rdr. sig. A8 Our troubles lead me by the hand, to these Texts, and these Texts did carry me back to our Times. 1764 J. Otis Rights Brit. Colonies 51 Would these gentlemen carry us back to the state of the Goths and Vandals, and revive all the military tenures and bondage which our fore-fathers could not bear? 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §7. 95 The legend..carries us back to the times of our own Ælfred. 1932 E. A. Bentt Metaphysical Found. Mod. Physical Sci. (ed. 2) viii. 305 The second of these alternatives carries us back to pre-scientific logic. 2005 S. Rushdie Shalimar the Clown 31 The ambassador was carried back to his Strasbourgeois childhood years in a Belle Époque mansion. 2. transitive. Accounting. To transfer (a loss, unused credit, etc.) to a previous tax period in order to reduce the amount of tax to be paid.Cf. to carry forward at Phrasal verbs, to carry over 1 at Phrasal verbs, to carry up 5 at Phrasal verbs. ΚΠ 1934 Accounting Rev. 9 226/2 A company which applied its profit in writing off goodwill was allowed to carry back to profit and loss an amount written off which proved to be in excess of the proper requirements. 1943 Effects Taxes upon Corporate Policy (National Industrial Conference Board) iii. 26/2 Provisions..for carrying losses (and excess-profits credits) two years back and two years forward will ameliorate the matter but not correct it. 2002 Which? Tax Saving Guide 56/3 If you want to carry back a payment to 2001–2002, you must pay it and make the option by 31 January 2003. < as lemmas |
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