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To be like something from an earlier time, or to keep returning to it in talk — a design that harks back to the 1920s, a man who keeps harking back to his school days. A slightly formal, writerly phrase; you'll read it more than hear it. Always with 'to'.
讓人想起從前、回溯到
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hark backverb/ˌhɑːk ˈbæk/
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hobbieshuntinglifestyleOf hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
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To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.
- He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. So he turned his weary horse's head, and made his way back along the road to the spot where his spoor struck into it.
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To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event).
- Mr. Flemyng, who had been assuaging his thirst with more champagne during the afternoon, had harked back to the subject of his morning's discourse, and was laying down an authoritative scheme of ethics, in the course of which sundry hard words, such as transcendentalism, pseudo-materialism and the like, lost a syllable here and there.
- Harking back to the theme of a series of speeches he [George W. Bush] delivered last week, he said he was reminded that "there's still an enemy out there that would like to inflict the same kind of damage again."
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hobbieshuntinglifestyleTo call back (hounds); to recall.
hark backnoun/ˌhɑːk ˈbæk/
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hobbieshuntinglifestyleAlternative form of hark-back.
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Alternative form of hark-back.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。