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<< review queue entry 70719 - submitted by 'tubbums32' >> New word not in the system; obtained via Youtube CC ------------------------------- Editor: 回過頭來 = 回頭(verb+object) + 過來(verb complement) Like 转过性来 转过口来 想过味来 回过头来 缓过劲来 掉过头来 /to turn one's head; to turn around/ He turned back to the girls, who were trying to suppress their smiles. 他回过头来看着几位姑娘。 她们正强忍着笑呢。 Her voice thinned down to a whisper as people turned to shush her. 当人们回过头来嘘她时，她就放低嗓门讲话了。 ---------------------- /(fig.) to return (to a previous point); to come back (to what one was saying before)/ Now, let us return to the first. 现在我们再回过头来谈第一点吧？ But to resume my story; 还是回过头来讲我的故事吧！ We will get around to discussing it sometime. 以后有时间，我们回过头来讨论这篇论文。 Now let's fall back upon what he said previously 现在让我们回过头来谈谈他先前讲过的话。 He devoted the first years of his student lift to mathematics then he studied the natural science; but finally returned to his first love. 他头几年里致力于研究数学；后来他又去研究自然科学；但最后他又回过头来重操旧业，研究数学。 Some students leave mathematics out of their curriculum altogether, only to discover, after they have embarked on a program of graduate study, that they must go back and take undergraduate courses 一些学生把数学完全丢失在课程之外,到开始研究生学业之后才发现他们必须回过头来重新学习大学本科的课程。 But it is also possible, and sometimes preferable, to start from the middle of or even the end of the story with the event that is most important or most likely to arouse the reader's interest, and then go back to the beginning by using flashback. 但是故事有时也可以从中间甚至结局写起，从最重要、最能引人入胜的事件开始，然后回过头来追叙故事的开端和经过，这叫倒叙。 ------------------------------- /(fig.) to look back (in time); to reflect on the past/ Look back on it, i wish we have not give in so easily 回过头来看一看,我希望我们没有那么容易就放弃了 Now, looking back on more than 20 years of practice, we can see that there was a lot of empty talk on both sides. 经过二十多年的实践，回过头来看，双方都讲了许多空话。 It is not uncommon today to find youngsters who, when they have graduated from high school, wished they had been made to work harder. 现在常常发现有些年轻人从中学毕业后，回过头来希望在中学学习时对他们督促得紧一些。 Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe. 有时回过头来，想想自己说过的话或者留过的发型，都觉得后怕。 “Looking back at when I was growing up, I realize that the main question that I struggled with for most of my childhood was, ‘What exactly does it mean to be a man? 回过头来看看，在我成长过程中，我意识到，我大部分的儿童期都在极力地想知道的最主要的问题是：“成为一个男人的确切含义是什么？” |
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# 回過頭來 回过头来 [hui2 guo4 tou2 lai2] /Looking back/In retrospect…/ + 回過頭來 回过头来 [hui2 guo4 tou2 lai2] /to turn one's head; to turn around/(fig.) to return (to a previous point); to come back (to what one was saying before)/(fig.) to look back (in time); to reflect on the past/ |