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。
• 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。
• Please hang up and we'll call you back.
  请挂断，我们会打给你。
• I'll hang up call you back, OK?
  我先挂了，回头再打给你，好吗？
• 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。
• Don't hang back? Go and introduce yourself.
  不要缩在后面，上前去作自我介绍。
• You iosers should hang out in the back.
  你们这些衰人站在后面。
• 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。
• To cause to hang back or fall behind.
  落后于使畏缩不前或落后。
• 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。