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 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。
• I hang back from any group activities.
  我不能参加任何团体活动。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Look, tell her to hang back and left.
  看，叫她往后退。
• Please hang up and we'll call you back.
  请挂断，我们会打给你。
• Don't hang back in the face of difficulties.
  不要因为困难而却步。
• I'll hang up call you back, OK?
  我先挂了，回头再打给你，好吗？
• 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。