look back
phrasal verb with look verb uk/lʊk/ us/lʊk/
B2 回忆,追忆,回想
to think about something that happened in the past
When I look back I can see where we went wrong. 回过头来看,我可以看出我们错在哪里。
It wasn't such a bad experience when I look back on it. 现在回想起来,我觉得那并不是一段特别糟糕的经历。
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- When I look back, I'm filled with sadness.
- He looked back on his time as president with pride.
- One day we'll look back on this and laugh.
- When you look back on this in a year or two, it won't seem so bad.
- Looking back, I admit I didn't always do the right thing.