stretch back

基本解釋

Warnings that curiosity can be destructive stretch back to the very beginning of civilisation.
對於好奇心具有破壞作用的警告可以追溯到教化之初。
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Peru's many cultures stretch back for more than 5, 000 years, way beyond the Incas and their Spanish conquerors.
秘魯許多文明可以追溯至5000多年以前，遠(yuǎn)在印加人和西班牙征服者之前。
These are aspirations that stretch back through the ages – aspirations at the heart of Judaism, at the heart of Christianity, at the heart of all of the world's great religions.
這些都是廻溯到那個時代的渴望，在猶太教心中的渴望，在基督教心中的渴望，以及全世界偉大宗教心中的渴望。

"And like the broader American citizenry, the American Muslim community is one of extraordinary dynamism and diversity - with families that stretch back generations and more recent immigrants;
Some of these books which we think are roughly from a certain date, they will contain narrative snippets or legal materials or oral traditions that may even date back or stretch back further in time, and they were perhaps transmitted orally and then ended up in these written forms.
有些篇章衹是被我們粗略地認(rèn)爲(wèi)出現(xiàn)於那個年代，其中包含的故事片段或律法材料或口頭傳統(tǒng),其實(shí)也許能夠追溯到更久遠(yuǎn)，所以這些很可能一開始是被口頭傳播,後來才用文字形式記載的。
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Now, that was true in Sloane but I think Luce has got very good acoustics so you can stretch out in the back.
在斯隆那邊確實(shí)是這樣的,但是盧斯這裡的音響傚果很好,所以在後麪也能睡好
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Those fears stretch back to the Korean War and the nuclear gamesmanship of the Cold War.
NPR: NKorea: Cold War History With US Justifies Nukes