beat a hasty retreat
基本解释
- 緊急撤退
英汉例句
- The point of the scary frill is to give the lizard enough time to beat a hasty retreat, rocketing up the nearest arboreal loft.
恐嚇皺褶的目的是給蜥蜴足夠的時間倉皇撤退,竄入最近的樹叢中。 - Don't beat a hasty retreat, and don't leave the building; tell your abuser that you're late for an appointment with HR, for example.
別匆忙撤退,也別離開辦公樓;告訴你的惡霸,你有約會,比如,和HR的約會,要晚了。 - Although the polar bear did not exactly beat a hasty retreat, it came no further inland after encountering the hostile 'welcoming' committee and shuffled off elsewhere.
北極熊沒有馬上打退堂鼓,在碰到充滿敵意的“歡迎”委員會後,它搖擺著去了別処,沒有深入島內。 - Oil prices beat a hasty retreat Monday, as the dollar firmed up and the prospect of diplomatic talks with Iran soothed fears of a military strike.
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