| 单词 | to roll back |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto roll back to roll back 1. a. transitive. To reverse the direction or progress of, to turn back; to cause to recede or retreat. Frequently figurative or in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > cause to move back [verb (transitive)] > turn back or reverse the course of reverse?a1439 to turn back?1531 return?1542 retrograde1582 tergiverse1602 turn1665 to roll back1695 revert1814 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur viii. 229 The Conquerour before is forc'd to yield, And rolling back its Waves deserts the Field. 1706 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ ii. 258 His wondrous Voice rolls back the Spheres, Recalls the Scenes of Ancient Years. 1773 J. Macpherson tr. Homer Iliad I. xi. 318 To meet the foe, hand to hand; to roll back the loud tempest of war. 1845 Eng. Rev. June 330 We do not flatter ourselves that our arguments can roll back the current of legislation. 1877 United Methodist Free Churches' Mag. July 389 No sensible man..would ever dream of praying God to roll back the tide, because he knows that to roll back the tide would be a miracle. 1901 J. A. Babington Reformation v. 128 The only Dane who boldly attempted to roll back the advancing Reformation. 1987 A. Miller Timebends (1988) iv. 280 The Russians were beginning to look like they might well roll back the Germans. b. transitive. To reduce, curtail, or annul (something powerful or influential). ΚΠ 1890 Contemp. Pulpit 4 326 The marvellous power of that ‘I absolve thee’ to roll back the deadly power of death which makes the supernatural life impossible. 1953 E. W. Barrett Truth is our Weapon vi. 79 Our fourth objective is that of helping to roll back Soviet influence, not by arms, of course, but by all means short of force. 1979 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 12 Oct. 5/5 Neo-conservatism's promise is to roll back big government. 1995 Gazette (Montreal) 9 Sept. b6 Bhutto, with no great success, has tried to roll back the prejudice dispensed to women by Pakistani courts. 2. transitive to roll back the years: see Phrases 2. 3. transitive. Originally U.S. To reduce, cut back; esp. to reduce (prices) to a previous level. Cf. rollback n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] littleeOE anitherOE wanzelOE lessc1225 slakea1300 littenc1300 aslakec1314 adminisha1325 allayc1330 settle1338 low1340 minisha1382 reprovea1382 abatea1398 rebatea1398 subtlea1398 alaskia1400 forlyten?a1400 imminish14.. lessenc1410 diminish1417 repress?a1425 assuagec1430 scarcec1440 small1440 underslakec1440 alessa1450 debate?c1450 batec1460 decreasec1470 appetisse1474 alow1494 mince1499 perswage?1504 remita1513 inless?1521 attenuate1530 weaken1530 defray1532 mitigate1532 minorate1534 narrow?1548 diminuec1550 extenuate1555 amain1578 exolve1578 base1581 dejecta1586 amoinder1588 faint1598 qualify1604 contract1605 to pull down1607 shrivel1609 to take down1610 disaugment1611 impoverish1611 shrink1628 decoct1629 persway1631 unflame1635 straiten1645 depress1647 reduce1649 detract1654 minuate1657 alloy1661 lower?1662 sinka1684 retreat1690 nip1785 to drive down1840 minify1866 to knock down1867 to damp down1869 scale1887 mute1891 clip1938 to roll back1942 to cut back1943 downscale1945 downrate1958 slim1963 downshift1972 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > lower (price) weaken1530 mitigate1542 abase1551 fall1564 to beat the price1591 to bring down1600 to fetch down1841 degrade1844 to roll back1942 1942 [implied in: Canad. Jrnl. Econ. & Polit. Sci. 8 438 The rolling back of costs had meant the lowering of gross profit margins all along the line. (at rolling back n. at rolling n.1 Compounds 3)]. 1943 Funk & Wagnalls New Stand. Encycl. Yearbk. 1942 81/1 In many instances, wholesale or manufacturers' prices were ‘rolled back’ to an earlier date. 1951 Manch. Guardian Weekly 15 Mar. 10/4 The Tampa Tribune in Florida..prominently reported,..the Government's promise to roll back meat prices. 1977 Time 25 July 5/2 Fully 1.15 million workers were jobless in June... Unless the Giscard regime can roll back that figure, it could become a lethal weapon in the hands of the left. 1991 Utilitas May 60 The prospect of rolling back the margins in agriculture is an exciting one which flies in the face of conventional classical growth theory. 1999 Asda Mag. Aug. 36/1 And the price of fresh chillies has been rolled back so what are you waiting for—go out and try some! 4. transitive. Computing. To restore (a system, database, program, etc.) to a previously defined state, typically to recover from an error. Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1960 Communications ACM 3 95/1 If it failed, the program ‘rolled back’ to the last check point; that is, the last ten minutes were run again. 1979 T. Anderson et al. in B. Randell Computing Syst. Reliability v. 193 An error such that it is necessary to roll back that process to a state prior to the acquisition of the resource. 1990 PC User (Nexis) 18 July 32 Dragging the scrollbar slider towards Undo rolls back the editing session to any previous state. 1999 Network World 21 June 14 The ability to..roll back to previous configurations in the event something goes wrong. 2008 D. A. Karp Windows Vista Annoyances vi. 324 To roll back a file to an earlier version, select the backup or shadow copy you want, and click Restore. < as lemmas |
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