backtrack

英 [ˈbæktræk]

美 [ˈbæktræk]

v.  原路返回; 折回; 折返; (屈于压力而)改变声明(或主张)，出尔反尔; 退缩

现在分词：backtracking　过去式：backtracked　过去分词：backtracked　第三人称单数：backtracks　复数：backtracks　

化学

BNC.21946 / COCA.17377

牛津词典

verb

• 原路返回；折回；折返
  to go back along the same route that you have just come along
• （屈于压力而）改变声明（或主张），出尔反尔；退缩
  to change an earlier statement, opinion or promise because of pressure from sb/sth

柯林斯词典

• VERB 改变（说法、决定等）；出尔反尔
  If youbacktrack ona statement or decision you have made, you do or say something that shows that you no longer agree with it or support it.
  1. The committee backtracked by scrapping the controversial bonus system...
     委员会改变主意，放弃了有争议的奖金制度。
  2. The finance minister backtracked on his decision.
     财政部长收回了他的决定。
• VERB 原路返回
  If youbacktrack, you go back along a path or route you have just used.
  1. Leonard jumped in his car and started backtracking...
     伦纳德跳进车里，开始原路折返。
  2. We had to backtrack to the corner and cross the street.
     我们不得不原路返回到拐角处过街。
• VERB 倒回（描述或解释内容）
  If youbacktrackin an account or explanation, you talk about things which happened before the ones you were previously talking about.
  1. Can we just backtrack a little bit and look at your primary and secondary education?
     我们能不能回过头来谈谈你的小学和中学教育？

英英释义

verb

• retrace one's course
  1. The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back
  Synonym:turn backdouble back

双语例句

• It's no easy task-BenQ, an electronics company, expanded too fast and had to backtrack.
  这绝非易事。台湾电子公司明基（BenQ）就因扩张太快而不得不收缩业务。
• We went the wrong way and had to backtrack till we got to the right turning.
  我们走错了路，所以不得不往回走直到走上正路。
• It's especially tough to backtrack through research using new sites with rich Web2.0 features that display extra data directly within a Web page.
  如果你使用的浏览器有Web2.0的功能，直接在网页中显示额外信息的话，那么回过头来寻找浏览过的网页变得尤其困难。
• Cleared to enter the runway and backtrack to the take-off point.
  允许进跑道，做180到起飞位置。
• First they could not agree on a candidate to head the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank in 2011 and 2012. Then recently India and South Africa signaled they may backtrack on a trade agreement initially endorsed by all five countries.
  当初，它们在2011和2012年未能就IMF和世界银行负责人提名达成一致；而今，印度和南非近期又表示它们可能退出五国均已初步认可的贸易协议。
• Someone went to the trouble to backtrack: Let me look at their friends, who I can target as a secondary person '.
  有些人不厌其烦地反向折回侦察，仿佛在说：让我瞧瞧他们的朋友，谁能成为我的二级目标'。
• We had to backtrack to the corner and cross the street.
  我们不得不原路返回到拐角处过街。
• Leonard jumped in his car and started backtracking
  伦纳德跳进车里，开始原路折返。
• Do not ask whether we should backtrack, ask how we can blaze a new trail.
  不要问我们是否会走回头路，问问我们如何开辟新的道路。
• But we should continue to enforce those reform measures that have proved effective and should not backtrack.
  但是，已经从各方面证明行之有效的改革措施要继续实行，不能走回头路。