backtrack

verb

1. 原路返回；折回；折返
   to go back along the same route that you have just come along
2. （屈于压力而）改变声明（或主张），出尔反尔；退缩
   to change an earlier statement, opinion or promise because of pressure from sb/sth

1. VERB 改变（说法、决定等）；出尔反尔
   If you backtrack on a statement or decision you have made, you do or say something that shows that you no longer agree with it or support it.
   1. The committee backtracked by scrapping the controversial bonus system...
      委员会改变主意，放弃了有争议的奖金制度。
   2. The finance minister backtracked on his decision.
      财政部长收回了他的决定。
2. VERB 原路返回
   If you backtrack, you go back along a path or route you have just used.
   1. Leonard jumped in his car and started backtracking...
      伦纳德跳进车里，开始原路折返。
   2. We had to backtrack to the corner and cross the street.
      我们不得不原路返回到拐角处过街。
3. VERB 倒回（描述或解释内容）
   If you backtrack in an account or explanation, you talk about things which happened before the ones you were previously talking about.
   1. Can we just backtrack a little bit and look at your primary and secondary education?
      我们能不能回过头来谈谈你的小学和中学教育？

1. The committee backtracked by scrapping the controversial bonus system
   委员会改变主意，放弃了有争议的奖金制度。
2. The finance minister backtracked on his decision.
   财政部长收回了他的决定。
3. Leonard jumped in his car and started backtracking
   伦纳德跳进车里，开始原路折返。
4. We had to backtrack to the corner and cross the street.
   我们不得不原路返回到拐角处过街。
5. Can we just backtrack a little bit and look at your primary and secondary education?
   我们能不能回过头来谈谈你的小学和中学教育？
6. Thanks to this utility, we can now deploy builds to the WebSphere platform, manage automated testing runs, and even report failures and backtrack to the last stable release, all with one-click ease.
   由于这个实用工具，我们现在只需轻轻点击鼠标，就可以将构建部署到WebSphere平台，管理自动测试运行，甚至报告失败，然后追踪到最新一次稳定的发布。
7. Most people would rather waffle than tell you something and have to backtrack later.
   大多数人宁愿闲扯也不愿告诉你一些事情，最后不得不苦苦回想当初的蛛丝马迹。
8. A true gentleman doesnt backtrack on his words, but walks the talk.
   一个真正的绅士是不会食言的，而是言出必行。
9. First they could not agree on a candidate to head the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank in 2011 and 2012. Then recently India and South Africa signaled they may backtrack on a trade agreement initially endorsed by all five countries.
   当初，它们在2011和2012年未能就IMF和世界银行负责人提名达成一致；而今，印度和南非近期又表示它们可能退出五国均已初步认可的贸易协议。
10. It's especially tough to backtrack through research using new sites with rich Web2.0 features that display extra data directly within a Web page.
    如果你使用的浏览器有Web2.0的功能，直接在网页中显示额外信息的话，那么回过头来寻找浏览过的网页变得尤其困难。
11. He appeared to backtrack on this claim last month, before strengthening the message yesterday that the balance sheet would keep expanding under all universes.
    上月，他似乎弱化了这一承诺。但他昨日强调说，在任何情况下，欧洲央行的资产负债表都将继续扩大。
12. The professor's face turned red, and he tried to backtrack.
    那位教授脸红了，他还试图反驳。
13. We got lost driving to Shunyi, so had to backtrack quite a lot until we finally found the correct road.
    我们在开往顺义的路上迷路了，所以我们不得不回头重走了好长一段，才找到正确的方向。
14. It's no easy task-BenQ, an electronics company, expanded too fast and had to backtrack.
    这绝非易事。台湾电子公司明基（BenQ）就因扩张太快而不得不收缩业务。
15. Air cargo loading problem by backtrack algorithm is solved.
    用回溯算法解决飞机货舱装载问题。
16. Did you backtrack the shooter's location yet?
    你回去看过射手的蹲点了吗？
17. But we should continue to enforce those reform measures that have proved effective and should not backtrack.
    但是，已经从各方面证明行之有效的改革措施要继续实行，不能走回头路。
18. We backtrack to here.
    我们回溯到这儿。
19. Western sanctions will not force Mr Putin to backtrack.
    西方制裁将不会迫使普京改弦更张。
20. This time round, we backtrack a little to advice more about the air intake filtering system.
    这一回，我们只能一点建议更多的油罐车进气过滤系统。
21. If a mistake is later detected, then we must backtrack to the point of error and try another alternative. This is called backup.
    如果以后发现它是错误的，我们必须退回到点，再试另外的选择。这种方法称为回溯。
22. On the analysis of Kongming chess, proposes recursion and non-recursion algorithms based on backtrack for the issue, which works effectively.
    对孔明棋求解问题进行分析，提出了基于回溯思想的递归和非递归算法，运行结果表明了算法的有效性。
23. At other times, one may find it necessary to backtrack to a previous Step.
    在另一些场合，可能有必要重复前一步骤。
24. Someone went to the trouble to backtrack: Let me look at their friends, who I can target as a secondary person '.
    有些人不厌其烦地反向折回侦察，仿佛在说：让我瞧瞧他们的朋友，谁能成为我的二级目标'。
25. Do not ask whether we should backtrack, ask how we can blaze a new trail.
    不要问我们是否会走回头路，问问我们如何开辟新的道路。
26. Just knowing that this is hard, and having compassion for ourselves as we work through this process, can help us to stay the course when we feel the urge to backtrack.
    当我们想走回头路时，只要了解到这个过程很难，并且记得在这个过程中对自己慈悲些，就会很大程度上帮助我们坚持到底。
27. Cleared to enter the runway and backtrack to the take-off point.
    允许进跑道，做180到起飞位置。
28. We went the wrong way and had to backtrack till we got to the right turning.
    我们走错了路，所以不得不往回走直到走上正路。
29. I am jumping and mixing up the time sequence I know, so I backtrack to emphasise how it has happened suddenly, over weeks really, although the friendship was there for months, longer.
    我知道自己把事情的前后顺序都搞乱了，所以最后我回过头来强调为什么事情会发生得那么突然，只是几个星期的事情，尽管我们之间的友谊已经存在有几个月了。或许更长些。
30. I'm going to backtrack some of the side roads.
    我要上边路上往回找找。

verb

1. retrace one's course
   1. The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back

   Synonym:    turn backdouble back