His life seemed stuck in limbo ; he could not go forward and he could not go back.

他的生活好像陷入了不知所措的境地，进退两难。

《牛津词典》

Instrumental records do not go back far enough to provide us with reliable measurements of global climatic variability on timescales longer than a century.

仪器上记录的年代不够久远，因而无法可靠地提供一个世纪以前全球气候变化的测量值。

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If he promised to help, he will not go back on his promise.

如果他答应帮忙，他就不会食言。

《新英汉大辞典》

"This is very serious. That's why the rice will not go back to the level that we used to see,".

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If things didn't work out long term, they still have a spot for me I think if I want to go back and finish my MBA it's just not that high risk when you get right down to it.

如果长期下来不行的话，他们仍然偏爱我的话，我想我可以,回来读完工管硕士，实际去做的话困难并不大。

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It's not something you're going to go back and remember it's an opposite side, it's an adjacent side.

不应该再去翻以前的课本,还去回忆哪个是对边,哪个是邻边

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So, if these batteries are the root of the problem, why not go back to nickel-cadmium?

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But they are also quietly determined that things will not go back to the way they were.

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Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

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