"Hark back" nghĩa là gì?

Trở lại ngày đầu thuộc địa, Afghanistan airlift. Photo courtesy The U.S. Army.

'Hark back' nghĩa là quay trở lại (vấn đề gì), tương tự như (cái gì/hiện tượng gì) đã có trước đây (mention or remember something from the past). Ngoài ra, còn có nghĩa là lần đường ngược lại đánh hơi tìm dấu vết thú săn.

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A year and a half from now, vehicles with engines based on concepts that hark back to the Battle of Britain could start to hit the road.

Boko Haram’s area of operations is predominantly Sunni Muslim, but the tightly-knit operational core consists mainly of Kanuris, who hark back to their golden pre-colonial era.

The agreement, which was approved by 83 per cent of workers in a ballot this month, scraps (loại ra, bỏ đi) legacy conditions that hark back to Aurizon’s days as the state-owned QR National. The legacy conditions included no forced redundancies, free rail passes and rostering (bảng phân công) restrictions.

With the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the age of total war — the mobilization of a nation’s entire resources — had arrived. The scale of bloodshed and devastation harked back to the Thirty Years’ War.

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