retreat是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to go away from a place or person in order to escape from fighting or danger -- 退卻；撤退；後退

  • Attacks by enemy aircraft forced the tanks to retreat (from the city). 敵機的轟炸迫使坦克（從這座城市）撤離。

  • When she came towards me shouting, I retreated (behind my desk). 她大叫著衝向我時，我就後退（到了桌子後面）。

  • When he's done something wrong, he retreats to his bedroom. 他要是做了甚麽錯事，就會躲到自己睡房裡去。

• 1 to decide not to do something, or to stop believing something, because it causes too many problems -- 改變主意；退縮；放棄信仰

  • The government is retreating from its promises. 政府要收回其承諾。

• 2 If a price retreats, it goes down after it has gone up. -- （價格）在上漲之後回落

  • Wheat prices retreated after a two-day increase. 小麥價格在兩天的上漲之後回落。

• 3 a move back by soldiers or an army, either because they have been defeated or in order to avoid fighting -- （士兵或軍隊的）撤退，退卻，後退

  • the retreat from Dunkirk 敦刻爾克大撤退

  • Enemy soldiers are now in (full) retreat. 敵軍正在（全面）撤退

  • a country/mountain/lakeside retreat 鄉間／山區／湖畔的幽靜的住所

  • We went on (a) retreat at/to a monastery in Wales. 我們去威爾士的一間修道院靜修。

• 4 a change from previous beliefs or behaviour -- （信仰的）改變；退縮；放棄

  • The professor's speech marked/signalled a retreat from his usual extreme views. 教授的演講標誌著／表明他已經放棄了他一貫的極端觀點。

• 5 a situation in which the price of something goes down -- （價格）下跌的情況

  • Over the past few weeks we have seen the currency's big retreat from its historic high. 在過去幾週內，這一貨幣的價格從歷史最高點大幅回落。