hang back

英 [hæŋ bæk]

美 [hæŋ bæk]

（通常指因紧张而）略微退缩; 拖延; 拖拉

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB （通常指因紧张而）退缩，躲避
  If youhang 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。
• PHRASAL VERB 拖延;拖拉
  If a person or organizationhangs 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。

英英释义

verb

• to lag or linger behind
  1. But in so many other areas we still are dragging
  Synonym:dragtrailget behinddrop behinddrop back

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Some people prefer to hang back from the crowd.
  有些人喜欢与人们保持距离。
• 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。
• 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。
• They will then hang back on closing the deal
  他们接着会拖延生意的成交。
• 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。