• n. 撤退；休息寓所；撤退
• vi. 撤退；退避；向后傾
• vt. 退（棋）；使后退

re-,向后，往回，treat,拉，處理，詞源同 tract.即回拉，引申詞義撤退，退離。

retreat

retreat: [14] Retreat and retract [15] are ultimately the same word. Both go back to Latin retrahere ‘draw back’, a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back’ and trahere ‘draw, pull’ (source of English tractor). This passed into Old French as retraire, and its past participle retrait came to be used as a noun meaning ‘withdrawal’ – whence English retreat. Meanwhile the past participle of retrahere, retractus, had been used as the basis of a new Latin verb, retractāre, which passed into English via Old French retracter as retract.
=> contract, distract, retract, tractor

retreat (n.)

c. 1300, "a step backward;" late 14c., "act of retiring or withdrawing; military signal for retiring from action or exercise," from Old French retret, noun use of past participle of retrere "draw back," from Latin retrahere "draw back, withdraw, call back," from re- "back" (see re-) + trahere "to draw" (see tract (n.1)). Meaning "place of seclusion" is from early 15c.; sense of "establishment for mentally ill persons" is from 1797. Meaning "period of retirement for religious self-examination" is from 1756.

retreat (v.)

early 15c., "to draw in, draw back, leave the extremities," from retreat (n.) and in part from Old French retret, past participle of retrere. Meaning "to fall back from battle" is mid-15c. Related: Retreated; retreating.

1. In June 1942, the British 8th Army was in full retreat.

1942年6月,英國第八軍全面撤退.

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2. It's a retreat into the adolescence they never really had.

這是對他們從不曾真正擁有的青春時代的回歸.

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3. Their soldiers had to retreat ignominiously after losing hundreds of lives.

損失數百人之后，他們的士兵被迫灰溜溜地撤退。

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4. Yesterday'svote itself was a retreat from an earlier fallback position.

昨天的投票本身就是放棄先前所留退路的做法。

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5. Cockburn decided it was time to beat a hasty retreat.

科伯恩認為到了該緊急撤退的時候了。

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