英语词汇“to look back”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. intransitive. To call to mind or recollect a past event; to reflect upon the past. Frequently with preposition of direction, esp. on.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > look back, retrospect [verb (intransitive)]

to look backward?c1450

to look back1529

to look backwards1598

recoila1616

retrospect1664

run1692

revert1820

reverie1832

to think back (on or to)1901

to job backwards1907

1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters i. xxvi. f. xxxviii/2 Whan I loke bak agayne vppon holy scrypture, and consyder that yt ys goddys owne wordys.

a1556 Ld. Vaux in R. Edwards Paradyse Daynty Deuises (1576) 11 When I looke backe, and in my selfe beholde, The wandring wayes, that youth could not descry.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 102 Gracious Lord..Looke back into your mightie Ancestors.

1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iv. v. 674 Is it not a very little time when thou lookest back on it?

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 100. ⁋1 A Man advanced in Years that thinks fit to look back upon his former Life.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. vi. 111 In future years, you will look back to this night with satisfaction or repentance.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 200 He would have looked back with remorse on a literary life of near thirty years.

1862 Southern Lit. Messenger Jan. 52/1 Looking back, I wonder how I bore it.

1892 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 9 331 One portion of my life is not pleasant to look back to.

1911 Amer. Mag. Mar. 592/2 He looked back at his life in this little town.

1921 Game Breeder Dec. 70/2 If one looks back twenty-five or thirty years the change in sentiment towards nature..is really extraordinary.

1955 V. Nabokov Let. 24 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1989) 180 I look back at our cloudless association and it is painful to think that it will be different from now on.

2013 B. Bonner Paging Dead xx. 254 Looking back on it now, I should have known better.

†b. transitive. With interrogative clause as object. To call to mind, recollect. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > look back on [verb (transitive)]

refera1398

to look back1579

review1597

retrospect1664

retrace1686

to take back1796

reverie1961

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 69 The daungers & perills of this kingdom which they offer me, are not altogether vncertain, if we wil looke backe [Fr. considerer] what happened vnto Romulus.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xi. 53 See How I conuey my shame, out of thine eyes, By looking backe what I haue left behinde Stroy'd in dishonor.

1700 J. M. tr. Dionysius Cato his Four Bks. Moral Precepts ii. 10 Look back what follows, and withal Forseee [sic] what stands in place.

1779 R. Hamilton Introd. Merchandize II. iv. ii. 64 When we receive payment of a bill, we must recollect or look back how it was entered when granted.

2. intransitive. To turn and look behind one, or in the direction from which one has travelled. Also with at, to, etc.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look back

to look againwardc1225

to look backwardc1405

to look backwardsc1429

to look again?c1430

to look back1533

1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani x. sig. f.vi Sodoma must be forsaken vtterly hastely yea & at ones: it is not lawfull to loke backe [L. respicere].

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. i. sig. B2 At yonder rising of the ground she turned her selfe, looking backe toward her woonted abode.

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxvi. 350 This was the difference betweene Iudas and Ionas. Iudas wente out, and never looked backe more.

1631 W. Lisle Faire Æthiopian i. 21 Still looking backe at her Theagenes.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 641 They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat.

1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) iii. 27 Thrice she look'd back, and thrice the Foe drew near.

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. i. 44 Often they looked back to the convent, expecting to see lights issue from the avenue.

1841 Sporting Rev. Aug. 117 The same dog..amused himself as he ran.., stopping frequently, as if pointing at game, roading it up, looking back to his master, [etc.].

1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxvii. 261 They..turned in their saddles and looked back.

1939 C. Beaton Diary July in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) ix. 71 We looked back to the Palace, where tired and baffled officials clustered by the door.

a1979 B. D'J. Pancake Trilobites (1992) 104 As he crested the first knoll, he looked back to the hollow, where he knew Trudy was still sleeping.

2003 D. Bowler & D. Reynolds Ron Reynolds i. 5 All the players started tearing off down the other end of the field, but I looked back and saw the old man was really struggling.

3. intransitive. With to, †unto. To rely on a person for something. Cf. to look to —— 3a at Phrasal verbs 2, to look unto —— at Phrasal verbs 2. rare after 17th cent. [Perhaps after classical Latin respicere.] Only in religious contexts.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > trust in, rely on [verb (transitive)]

to set one's heart on (also (in)c825

littenc1175

leanc1230

fie1340

trusta1382

resta1393

reappose1567

repose1567

lite1570

rely1574

to set (up) one's rest1579

rely1606

to look back1646

recumba1677

to pin one's faith (also hope, etc.) on (also to) a person's sleeve1791

to look to ——1807

bank1884

1646 P. Bulkley Gospel-covenant i. 52 The whole creation lookes backe unto him that made it for preservation in their being.

a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1693) I. 165 A Believer may look back to the other [sc. God] for comfort, that abuses it not to a sinfull security.

1953 D.T. Rowlingson in J. R. Spann Church & Social Responsibility ii. 36 We look back to him [sc. Christ] for guidance and dynamic, but we live and work in the present.

4. intransitive. to look back to: to evoke or draw inspiration from (something in the past); to pay homage to or appropriate elements of (a style, genre, etc.).

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the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > appropriate

ownOE

rimec1275

takec1300

appropre1366

to keep, take to or for one's own storec1385

to get awayc1480

proper1496

apprehenda1522

impropry1526

impropriate1567

carve1578

forestall1581

appropriate1583

propriate1587

pocket1597

impatronize1611

propertya1616

asself1632

appropriatea1634

swallow1637

to swallow up1654

sink1699

poucha1774

spheterize1779

sack1807

fob1818

to look back to1822

mop1861

annex1865

1822 D. Stewart Sketches Highlanders Scotl. II. App. p. xc Were it not for these national bodies of men in distinct corps, Scotland must look back to the days of Wallace, Bruce.., and the campaigns of Montrose, for its military character.

1868 R. W. Church Civilization & Relig. 20 In some of its leading and most powerful representatives, [civilization] looks back to paganism.

1943 E. L. Mascall He who Is x. 135 The ‘sophiology’, or teaching concerning the Divine Wisdom.., looks back to the fourteenth-century mystic of Mount Athos, St Gregory Palamas.

1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Oct. 4 Virgil looks back to Homer and thereby constructs a new poem, one that frequently means more than any mere imitation could invoke, out of an acknowledged predecession.

2013 Daily Tel. 28 June 35/3 No surprise that..the New Look that made his [sc. Christian Dior's] name, with its cinched waists and long, full romantic skirts, looks back to the Belle Epoque.

5. intransitive. colloquial. never (also not) to look back: to continue in one's course, esp. to enjoy uninterrupted progress or success, following some significant incident, decision, etc. Cf. never (also not) to look behind one at Phrases 1a(f).

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1846 J. M. Gully Water Cure in Chronic Dis. ii. i. 182 She has never ‘looked back’, but has gone on from good to better.

1893 Daily News 5 Jan. 3/6 Since that day St. Simon has never, to use a slang phrase of the day, ‘looked back.’

1928 Observer 17 June 27/4 Since they adopted the bold experiment..of changing the date of their regatta..Marlow Amateur Regatta has never looked back.

1949 Radio Times 15 July 17/1 Jules Verne..wrote Five Weeks in a Balloon, scored an immediate success, and never looked back.

1970 Motor Boating Sept. 71 (advt.) If you've owned other outboards, sample the new Mercs. You'll never look back.

1998 Today's Golfer 10th Anniv. Special 20/2 Super Mex hasn't looked back since stepping onto the US Senior PGA Tour stage in 1990.

2006 H. O'Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals 173 I left home at fifteen, I never looked back.

单词	to look back
释义	> as lemmas to look back to look back 1. a. intransitive. To call to mind or recollect a past event; to reflect upon the past. Frequently with preposition of direction, esp. on. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > look back, retrospect [verb (intransitive)] to look backward?c1450 to look back1529 to look backwards1598 recoila1616 retrospect1664 run1692 revert1820 reverie1832 to think back (on or to)1901 to job backwards1907 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters i. xxvi. f. xxxviii/2 Whan I loke bak agayne vppon holy scrypture, and consyder that yt ys goddys owne wordys. a1556 Ld. Vaux in R. Edwards Paradyse Daynty Deuises (1576) 11 When I looke backe, and in my selfe beholde, The wandring wayes, that youth could not descry. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 102 Gracious Lord..Looke back into your mightie Ancestors. View more context for this quotation 1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iv. v. 674 Is it not a very little time when thou lookest back on it? 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 100. ⁋1 A Man advanced in Years that thinks fit to look back upon his former Life. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. vi. 111 In future years, you will look back to this night with satisfaction or repentance. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 200 He would have looked back with remorse on a literary life of near thirty years. 1862 Southern Lit. Messenger Jan. 52/1 Looking back, I wonder how I bore it. 1892 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 9 331 One portion of my life is not pleasant to look back to. 1911 Amer. Mag. Mar. 592/2 He looked back at his life in this little town. 1921 Game Breeder Dec. 70/2 If one looks back twenty-five or thirty years the change in sentiment towards nature..is really extraordinary. 1955 V. Nabokov Let. 24 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1989) 180 I look back at our cloudless association and it is painful to think that it will be different from now on. 2013 B. Bonner Paging Dead xx. 254 Looking back on it now, I should have known better. †b. transitive. With interrogative clause as object. To call to mind, recollect. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > look back on [verb (transitive)] refera1398 to look back1579 review1597 retrospect1664 retrace1686 to take back1796 reverie1961 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 69 The daungers & perills of this kingdom which they offer me, are not altogether vncertain, if we wil looke backe [Fr. considerer] what happened vnto Romulus. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xi. 53 See How I conuey my shame, out of thine eyes, By looking backe what I haue left behinde Stroy'd in dishonor. View more context for this quotation 1700 J. M. tr. Dionysius Cato his Four Bks. Moral Precepts ii. 10 Look back what follows, and withal Forseee [sic] what stands in place. 1779 R. Hamilton Introd. Merchandize II. iv. ii. 64 When we receive payment of a bill, we must recollect or look back how it was entered when granted. 2. intransitive. To turn and look behind one, or in the direction from which one has travelled. Also with at, to, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look back to look againwardc1225 to look backwardc1405 to look backwardsc1429 to look again?c1430 to look back1533 1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani x. sig. f.vi Sodoma must be forsaken vtterly hastely yea & at ones: it is not lawfull to loke backe [L. respicere]. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. i. sig. B2 At yonder rising of the ground she turned her selfe, looking backe toward her woonted abode. 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxvi. 350 This was the difference betweene Iudas and Ionas. Iudas wente out, and never looked backe more. 1631 W. Lisle Faire Æthiopian i. 21 Still looking backe at her Theagenes. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 641 They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat. View more context for this quotation 1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) iii. 27 Thrice she look'd back, and thrice the Foe drew near. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. i. 44 Often they looked back to the convent, expecting to see lights issue from the avenue. 1841 Sporting Rev. Aug. 117 The same dog..amused himself as he ran.., stopping frequently, as if pointing at game, roading it up, looking back to his master, [etc.]. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxvii. 261 They..turned in their saddles and looked back. 1939 C. Beaton Diary July in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) ix. 71 We looked back to the Palace, where tired and baffled officials clustered by the door. a1979 B. D'J. Pancake Trilobites (1992) 104 As he crested the first knoll, he looked back to the hollow, where he knew Trudy was still sleeping. 2003 D. Bowler & D. Reynolds Ron Reynolds i. 5 All the players started tearing off down the other end of the field, but I looked back and saw the old man was really struggling. 3. intransitive. With to, †unto. To rely on a person for something. Cf. to look to —— 3a at Phrasal verbs 2, to look unto —— at Phrasal verbs 2. rare after 17th cent. [Perhaps after classical Latin respicere.] Only in religious contexts. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > trust in, rely on [verb (transitive)] to set one's heart on (also (in)c825 littenc1175 leanc1230 fie1340 trusta1382 resta1393 reappose1567 repose1567 lite1570 rely1574 to set (up) one's rest1579 rely1606 to look back1646 recumba1677 to pin one's faith (also hope, etc.) on (also to) a person's sleeve1791 to look to ——1807 bank1884 1646 P. Bulkley Gospel-covenant i. 52 The whole creation lookes backe unto him that made it for preservation in their being. a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1693) I. 165 A Believer may look back to the other [sc. God] for comfort, that abuses it not to a sinfull security. 1953 D.T. Rowlingson in J. R. Spann Church & Social Responsibility ii. 36 We look back to him [sc. Christ] for guidance and dynamic, but we live and work in the present. 4. intransitive. to look back to: to evoke or draw inspiration from (something in the past); to pay homage to or appropriate elements of (a style, genre, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > appropriate ownOE rimec1275 takec1300 appropre1366 to keep, take to or for one's own storec1385 to get awayc1480 proper1496 apprehenda1522 impropry1526 impropriate1567 carve1578 forestall1581 appropriate1583 propriate1587 pocket1597 impatronize1611 propertya1616 asself1632 appropriatea1634 swallow1637 to swallow up1654 sink1699 poucha1774 spheterize1779 sack1807 fob1818 to look back to1822 mop1861 annex1865 1822 D. Stewart Sketches Highlanders Scotl. II. App. p. xc Were it not for these national bodies of men in distinct corps, Scotland must look back to the days of Wallace, Bruce.., and the campaigns of Montrose, for its military character. 1868 R. W. Church Civilization & Relig. 20 In some of its leading and most powerful representatives, [civilization] looks back to paganism. 1943 E. L. Mascall He who Is x. 135 The ‘sophiology’, or teaching concerning the Divine Wisdom.., looks back to the fourteenth-century mystic of Mount Athos, St Gregory Palamas. 1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Oct. 4 Virgil looks back to Homer and thereby constructs a new poem, one that frequently means more than any mere imitation could invoke, out of an acknowledged predecession. 2013 Daily Tel. 28 June 35/3 No surprise that..the New Look that made his [sc. Christian Dior's] name, with its cinched waists and long, full romantic skirts, looks back to the Belle Epoque. 5. intransitive. colloquial. never (also not) to look back: to continue in one's course, esp. to enjoy uninterrupted progress or success, following some significant incident, decision, etc. Cf. never (also not) to look behind one at Phrases 1a(f). ΚΠ 1846 J. M. Gully Water Cure in Chronic Dis. ii. i. 182 She has never ‘looked back’, but has gone on from good to better. 1893 Daily News 5 Jan. 3/6 Since that day St. Simon has never, to use a slang phrase of the day, ‘looked back.’ 1928 Observer 17 June 27/4 Since they adopted the bold experiment..of changing the date of their regatta..Marlow Amateur Regatta has never looked back. 1949 Radio Times 15 July 17/1 Jules Verne..wrote Five Weeks in a Balloon, scored an immediate success, and never looked back. 1970 Motor Boating Sept. 71 (advt.) If you've owned other outboards, sample the new Mercs. You'll never look back. 1998 Today's Golfer 10th Anniv. Special 20/2 Super Mex hasn't looked back since stepping onto the US Senior PGA Tour stage in 1990. 2006 H. O'Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals 173 I left home at fifteen, I never looked back. extracted from lookv. < as lemmas
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