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to retreat; to withdraw / to reject; to return (sth) / to decline
HSK 3
to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
HSK 7-9
to dismiss / to discharge / to fire
HSK 7-9
to decline / to fall / to drop / to falter / a decline / recession (in economics)
HSK 7-9
fast-rewind (media player)
to retreat
to fall back / to go in reverse
to beat back / to repel
to guarantee refund (for faulty or unsatisfactory goods)
to retire from office / to resign
like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)
(economic) recession
to ebb / to go down / to decline
lit. to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom) / fig. to back out of an awkward situation; to get out on finding out what it's really like
not knowing when to come or leave (idiom); with no sense of propriety
to try to persuade sb to give up (their job, plans etc)
to retreat again and again in defeat / to suffer defeat after defeat
to retire (from society, esp. from politics) / to vanish
study is like rowing upstream – if you don't keep pushing forward, you fall behind
to petition for retirement (old) / to ask for leave to withdraw / to ask to be excused
contented / uninterested in wealth and glory
to leave early (before the stipulated finishing time) / to retire early (from one's job)
to dismiss from a post
to demote / to dismiss
to retreat in defeat
to hinder progress
to beat back / to repel / to repulse
to dismiss (from a post) / to expel from school / to order away (servants etc)
to send away / to dismiss (servants etc) / to retire from public life
to drive back (attackers)
(of an app) to crash
withdrawal from the Communist Party, the Communist Youth League, and the Young Pioneers of China
to escape unscathed; to get through in one piece
progress seems like regress (the Book of Dao 道德經|道德经, Chpt. 41)
to revert (computing) / to return (a package or letter) to the sender
to wane / to vanish gradually
without a retreat route / caught in a dead end / having burned one's bridges
(neologism c. 2007) (of an official) to retire completely from all leadership positions
to advance or retreat / knowing when to come and when to leave / a sense of propriety


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