hang back

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(通常指因紧张而)略微退缩; 拖延; 拖拉



柯林斯词典

  1. PHRASAL VERB (通常指因紧张而)退缩,躲避
    If you hang back, you move or stay slightly behind a person or group, usually because you are nervous about something.
    1. I saw him step forward momentarily but then hang back, nervously massaging his hands.
      我看到他走上前,但很快又缩了回来,紧张地搓着手。
  2. PHRASAL VERB 拖延;拖拉
    If a person or organization hangs back, they do not do something immediately.
    1. They will then hang back on closing the deal...
      他们接着会拖延生意的成交。
    2. Even his closest advisers believe he should hang back no longer.
      即便是和他关系最密切的顾问都认为他不应该再拖下去了。

双语例句

  1. I saw him step forward momentarily but then hang back, nervously massaging his hands.
    我看到他走上前,但很快又缩了回来,紧张地搓着手。
  2. They will then hang back on closing the deal
    他们接着会拖延生意的成交。
  3. Even his closest advisers believe he should hang back no longer.
    即便是和他关系最密切的顾问都认为他不应该再拖下去了。
  4. Don't hang back in the face of difficulties.
    不要因为困难而却步。
  5. Investors are getting fed up with minuscule interest rates but remain nervous Nellies& afraid to gallop into the stock market and afraid to hang back with their bonds.
    尽管美国投资者已不堪忍受眼下低得不足挂齿的利率,但是他们心中依然充满焦虑和恐惧&既不敢一头扎到股票市场中去,又畏首畏尾的不敢继续投资债券。
  6. I'll hang up call you back, OK?
    我先挂了,回头再打给你,好吗?
  7. If you hang back, and reserve and criticize at first, you are preventing yourself from getting the fullest possible value from what you read.
    如果你一开始便采取退缩矜持、有所保留或指指点点的态度,那你就在为自己设置障碍,使自己不能充分地从所阅读的书本中获到益处。
  8. Don't hang back waiting for other people to make the first move.
    不要干等着别人迈出第一步。
  9. You iosers should hang out in the back.
    你们这些衰人站在后面。
  10. I hang back from any group activities.
    我不能参加任何团体活动。
  11. A sharp sell-off in Hong Kong blue chips drove the Hang Seng index back below 20,000 yesterday as investors across the region continued to fret about slowing global growth and the outlook for the financial sector.
    香港蓝筹股昨日大幅下挫,推动恒生(HangSeng)指数再度跌破20000点关口。亚洲投资者继续担忧不断放缓的全球经济增长和金融业前景。
  12. Since then plans have stalled and worries about the US economy have sent the Hang Seng back near to its levels in August.
    自那以来,这项计划就遭到搁置,而对美国经济的担忧已使恒生指数回落至去年8月份的水平。
  13. If you don't need the clothes, hang them back in the wardrobe.
    如果你不需要这些衣服,就挂回衣柜里去。
  14. Some people prefer to hang back from the crowd.
    有些人喜欢与人们保持距离。
  15. Can't swim, I'll hang on here, I shouted back.
    不会游泳,我就呆在这儿吧,我大声回答他说。
  16. Who can make it clear, in this door one step away, perhaps will make you helpless and without resources, hang back.
    谁能说清,在这一步之遥的门内,或许会让你手足无措,望而却步。
  17. Please hang up and we'll call you back.
    请挂断,我们会打给你。
  18. Don't hang back? Go and introduce yourself.
    不要缩在后面,上前去作自我介绍。
  19. When a thing is to be told, why, tell it, and don't hang back.
    既然有话要说,那就痛痛快快地说出来,不要吞吞吐吐。
  20. To cause to hang back or fall behind.
    落后于使畏缩不前或落后。
  21. But, as the situation stands, foreigners are right to hang back from sending in ground troops.
    但根据目前的形势,外国有理由不愿派遣地面部队。
  22. Any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits.
    南美和中美的几种行动缓慢的树栖哺乳动物;它们倒挂在树枝上,以树叶或果实为食。
  23. I think we should hang back until we hear about what's really going on out there.
    我认为我们应该留在这里直到弄清楚到底发生了什么事。
  24. It hang a little low in the back.
    后背垂得低了一点。
  25. Yet at some point, China will do more than just hang back.
    然而,在某些时候,中国将会有比犹疑不定更多的动作。
  26. Look, tell her to hang back and left.
    看,叫她往后退。
  27. Besides," curtain "is often used with the phases such as" roll up"," hang down"," draw back "and" roll down", which convey implied and meaningful feelings of wildness.
    和“帘”相关的动作有卷、垂、开、下等。由此传达出委婉含蓄、意蕴深长的情感。
  28. But the interdisciplinary characteristic of Bioinformatics technology, such as complicated mathematics counting 、 logic analysis, visual data, Often makes biologists hang back.
    然而生物信息技术具有跨学科的特点,其中复杂的数学计算、逻辑推导、数据可视化往往令生物学家望而却步。
  29. But the high price of it makes a lot of demanders hang back.
    然而路由器的高昂价格却令许多需求者望而却步。
  30. Preliminary Report on Hang& Back Technique for Horizotal Concomitant Strabismus Surgery
    直肌悬吊后徙术治疗水平斜视的初步报告

英英释义

verb

  1. to lag or linger behind
    1. But in so many other areas we still are dragging

    Synonym:    dragtrailget behinddrop behinddrop back