In an asymmetric world weak parties often retreat in the face of force, only to return.

在一个不对称世界里，弱小各方往往在武力面前退却，然后又卷土重来。

In a short time we remit our fervor, and endeavor to find some mitigation of our duty, and some more easy means of obtaining the same end.

没想到刚走不远，转眼间，炽烈热情开始退却，开始努力寻找可以减轻职责东西，寻求更为简单可抵达终结途径。

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: An emotional retreat as Theresa May finally bows to intense political pressure from within her own party and announces she'll shortly step down.

Theresa May终于屈服于来自自己政党内部强大政治压力，宣布她不久将辞职，这一次情感上退却。

And you wind up with some of the gas moving towards us below and receding from us on the top.

你最后得到一些气体向下面移动，并从顶部退却。

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat.

他吹响了永不退却号角。

Alas for Schizodactylus, the sandy deserts it prefers have retreated from north-eastern Brazil and its optimality there has vanished.

唉，对节肢动物来说，它所喜爱沙质沙漠已经从巴西东北部退却，它在那里最佳体态已经消失。

As social conservatives retreated in the culture war over gay marriage, they advanced over abortion.

随着社会保守派在同性恋婚姻文化战争中退却，他在堕胎问题上取得了进展。

" You made that dementor on the train back off, " said Harry suddenly.

“你让火车上那个摄魂怪退却了。”哈利突然说。

The lion's numbers are against him. And despite his annoying hunger, he backs down.

狮子占着数量上优势。尽管饥饿让它苦恼，它择了退却。

And in the end even the dog backs away from him.

最后甚至连那狗都开始退却起来。

The crestfallen picture dealer withdrew; the tall man victoriously bore away the prize.

画商在这幅画面前退却了，高个子男人以胜利者姿态将奖品揽入怀中。

But when Jobs did so—giving her his practiced, unblinking stare—she recoiled.

乔布斯照做了，老练地眼睛眨都不眨地盯着她，利兹反而退却了。

I felt him fall back, angry, hurt, desiring, I didn't know.

感觉到他退却了，气恼了，受到伤害了，并且在期待什么。说不清楚。

I didn't back down. Neither did he. Yes, he was referring to our staring.

没退却。他也没有。，他指凝视。

New Hope Church was behind the gray troops now, a memory in a mad haze of like memories, heat, dust, hunger, weariness, tramp-tramp on the red rutted roads, slop-slop through the red mud, retreat, entrench, fight — retreat, entrench, fight.

纽霍教堂如今已落在南军后面了，它只留下了一个可怕而模糊记忆：酷热，尘土，饥饿，疲劳，在坎坷不平红土路上艰苦地行进，在红色泥泞中歪歪倒倒地挣扎，退却，掘壕，战斗----退却，掘壕，战斗。

He explained what he'd seen; how, as the nearest Dementor had lowered its mouth to Harry's, a large silver something had come galloping across the lake and forced the Dementors to retreat.

他告诉她他看到了什么；告诉她，离他最近那个摄魂怪即将把嘴放到哈利嘴边时候，一个大大银色东西从湖面上疾驰而来。逼迫摄魂怪退却了。

Whole continents sagged under the weight of so much ice and even now, twelve thousand years after the glaciers' withdrawal, are still rising back into place.

整块整块陆地在巨大冰盖压力下沉降，即使在荆”退却12000年后今天，这些陆地没有上升到原来位置。

Reagan said he lacked spunk; and his talk of " Big Mo" and " kicking ass" on the campaign trail often ended in retreat.

里根说他缺乏勇气；而他在竞过程中“大动作”和“大承诺”言论大都以退却告终。

Conventional wisdom tells us that when one stands up to a bully, the bully will inevitably back down and respect you for your courage.

传统智慧告诉当有人起身对抗霸凌者时，霸凌者必然退却 并尊重你勇气。

But Mongke backed off at the last moment, realizing he needed his brother for the coming fight against the Song.

而蒙克在最后一刻退却了，因为他意识到自己需要弟弟来对抗宋朝。