Not only are the mountain's glaciers retreating at an unprecedented rate, but its remaining ice is thinning.

不仅只有该山峰的冰川在以前所未有的速度消融，其剩余的冰雪也在逐渐变薄。

youdao

Along the narrative lines there were knots, tangles of horror that we could not look at first time, but could only touch before retreating, and then return.

沿着叙事的主线布满了死结和恐惧的纠结，我们一开始无法正视它们，只能在退下之前触碰一下，然后重新回来。

youdao

Actually, those guys would be useful, not so much, hardly at all during the scrum of the phalanx, but should one side be retreating.

尽管远程兵种的作用有限,尤其是双方混战时几乎形同虚设,但当一方撤退时,他们的作用就显现了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

As a result, investors may want to consider reducing allocations to commodities in their investment portfolios for 2012 from the levels they had set in 2011, but I would not recommend retreating entirely from commodities as an asset class.

FORBES: Don't Wait Too Long To Inflation-Proof Your Portfolio

The idea was to redeem the world, not by retreating from it, but by "Christianizing it, " carrying out all the tasks of daily living with a new spirit.

NPR: A Glimpse Inside a Catholic 'Force': Opus Dei