| 单词 | to roll back the years |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto roll back the years P2. to roll back the years: to evoke or recreate a previous time, state, or condition; to make it seem as if no time has passed. ΚΠ 1782 Brit. Mag. & Rev. Nov. 380 Fond remembrance will roll back the years. 1826 Worcester Mag. & Hist. Jrnl. 1 69 It required no laborious stretch of imagination to..roll back the years between the present period and the age of her glory, the reign of the fourteenth Lewis. 1922 E. P. Oppenheim Evil Shepherd xxxii. 256 If I could roll back the years, if from all my deeds of sin, as the world knows sin, I could cancel one. 1994 Representations 46 114 Titian rolled back the years by a full decade to make this picture commemorative of the career of a man who died in 1538. 2005 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 30 Sept. 31 The Beat are set to roll back the years when they play in Nuneaton next week. < as lemmas |
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