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 -- 退却；撤退；后退

  • Attacks by enemy aircraft forced the tanks to retreat (from the city). 敌机的轰炸迫使坦克（从这座城市）撤离。

  • When she came towards me shouting, I retreated (behind my desk). 她大叫着冲向我时，我就后退（到了桌子后面）。

  • When he's done something wrong, he retreats to his bedroom. 他要是做了什么错事，就会躲到自己卧室里去。

• 1 to decide not to do something, or to stop believing something, because it causes too many problems -- 改变主意；退缩；放弃信仰

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

• 2 If a price retreats, it goes down after it has gone up. -- （价格）在上涨之后回落

  • Wheat prices retreated after a two-day increase. 小麦价格在两天的上涨之后回落。

• 3 a move back by soldiers or an army, either because they have been defeated or in order to avoid fighting -- （士兵或军队的）撤退，退却，后退

  • the retreat from Dunkirk 敦刻尔克大撤退

  • Enemy soldiers are now in (full) retreat. 敌军正在（全面）撤退

  • a country/mountain/lakeside retreat 乡间／山区／湖畔的幽静的住所

  • We went on (a) retreat at/to a monastery in Wales. 我们去威尔士的一家修道院静修。

• 4 a change from previous beliefs or behaviour -- （信仰的）改变；退缩；放弃

  • The professor's speech marked/signalled a retreat from his usual extreme views. 教授的演讲标志着／表明他已经放弃了他一贯的极端观点。

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

  • Over the past few weeks we have seen the currency's big retreat from its historic high. 在过去几周内，这一货币的价格从历史最高点大幅回落。