| 单词 | you can't go home again |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyou can't go home again P13. Originally U.S. you can't go home again: it is impossible to return to the way things used to be; change is inevitable. ΚΠ a1938 T. Wolfe You can't go Home Again (1940) iii. 324 They did not know that you can't go home again. America had come to the end of something, and to the beginning of something else. 1969 N.Y. Mag. 7 Apr. 54/1 Okay. So you can't go home again. But it's sort of nice just to take a stroll around the old neighborhood, even though admittedly it's not the same. 1989 A. C. Bredahl New Ground viii. 127 Clyde discovers the obvious, that you can't go home again; but his act of return initiates the process of ‘stock taking’ that enables him to abandon nostalgia. 2009 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 12 Aug. 12 The Americans have a phrase for it: you can't go home again. Once you leave, that is it. There are few second and even fewer third acts in the life of an international sportsman. < as lemmas |
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