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单词 to look back to
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to look back to
4. intransitive. to look back to: to evoke or draw inspiration from (something in the past); to pay homage to or appropriate elements of (a style, genre, etc.).
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the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > appropriate
ownOE
rimec1275
takec1300
appropre1366
to keep, take to or for one's own storec1385
to get awayc1480
proper1496
apprehenda1522
impropry1526
impropriate1567
carve1578
forestall1581
appropriate1583
propriate1587
pocket1597
impatronize1611
propertya1616
asself1632
appropriatea1634
swallow1637
to swallow up1654
sink1699
poucha1774
spheterize1779
sack1807
fob1818
to look back to1822
mop1861
annex1865
1822 D. Stewart Sketches Highlanders Scotl. II. App. p. xc Were it not for these national bodies of men in distinct corps, Scotland must look back to the days of Wallace, Bruce.., and the campaigns of Montrose, for its military character.
1868 R. W. Church Civilization & Relig. 20 In some of its leading and most powerful representatives, [civilization] looks back to paganism.
1943 E. L. Mascall He who Is x. 135 The ‘sophiology’, or teaching concerning the Divine Wisdom.., looks back to the fourteenth-century mystic of Mount Athos, St Gregory Palamas.
1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Oct. 4 Virgil looks back to Homer and thereby constructs a new poem, one that frequently means more than any mere imitation could invoke, out of an acknowledged predecession.
2013 Daily Tel. 28 June 35/3 No surprise that..the New Look that made his [sc. Christian Dior's] name, with its cinched waists and long, full romantic skirts, looks back to the Belle Epoque.
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