turn back 详细解释

turn back

折回, 返回

阻止; 阻挡

The car was turned back at the frontier.

汽车在边境处被拦住了。

英英释义

动词 turn back:

retrace one's course

同义词：backtrack, double back

go back to a previous state

同义词：revert, return, retrovert, regress

force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

同义词：chase away, drive out, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off

hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

同义词：check, arrest, stop, contain, hold back

turn inside out or upside down

同义词：invert, reverse

补充

turn backturn back1.(使)往回走We'd better turn back; it's getting dark.我们最好还是往回走吧, 天快黑了。The police turned them back.警察把他们赶回去了。The wheel of history can never be turned back.历史的车轮绝不能倒转。2.翻起, 折转Don't turn back the corners of the pages to mark your place.别折书页的角来标明你读到的地方。

例句

1. The weather very nearly forced us to turn back.天气问题差点儿迫使我们返回。 2. The administration has endorsed the bill and can't turn back.政府已经签署了法案, 不能回头了。 3. A lot of the refugees were turned back at the border.许多难民在边境被挡了回来。 4. The police turned back the demonstrators.警察把示威者挡了回去。 5. They turned back from the gate.他们从大门口折了回去。 6. turn back to the previous page.翻回到上一页。 7. I’m in the habit of turning back the corner of the page to mark my place.我习惯折书角来表示读到的地方。 8. She turned back the cover and found a pool of blood on the top.她折起床罩，发现上方有一片血迹。 9. Once you have made a promise, there is no turning back.一旦你做出了承诺，就不能反悔了。 10. We've come so far already, we can't turn back now.我们已经走得这么远，现在不能折返。 11. The sun is setting. It's time to turn back.太阳要落山了，该回去了。 12. It's too late to turn back. We have to keep going.现在返回已经太晚了，我们只能继续前进。 13. turn back to the first page.翻回到第一页。 14. "Once you start the process, there's no turning back. [=you must continue the process]"你一旦启动了这个流程，就必须进行下去。 15. They fought to turn back the enemy.他们奋起反抗，以将敌军赶回去。 16. "If I could turn back (the hands of) time [=return to a condition that existed in the past], I would."如果我能，我就会让时间倒流。 17. The refugees were turned back at the border.难民们在边界处被遣返。

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