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1. The policeman asked the spectators to stand back.
警察要旁观者退后。

2. Mary ran the family and her husband stood back.
玛丽当家，她丈夫不过问家务。

在公共汽车上

A：Stand back from the door, please. There’re plenty of seats in the rear.
请离开门边，后面有许多座位。

B：What’s the fare, please?
请问票价是多少？

A：One yuan fifty cents. Drop it in the box here.
1 元5 角，把它放进箱子里。

B：Is this the right bus to Zizhuyuan Park？
这是去紫竹院公园的汽车吗？

A：Take a No.2. This is No.12.
应该乘2 路车，这是12 路。

B：But somebody told me this was the right bus to take. I want to go to Tian’anmen Square, you see.
但有人告诉我是坐这趟车去天安门广场。

A：Then this is the right bus. Move on, please. You’re holding up the passengers. Tian’anmen Square is the last stop but one.
是这趟车，请往前走，您挡住了其他的乘客。天安门广场在倒数第二站。

B：Would you please let me know when we get there?
到站的时候您能告诉我一下吗？

A：Sure thing. I’ll shout it out.
确切的说，到的时候我会大声喊的。

1. 退后：stand at bay 陷入困境 | stand back 退后 | stand by 遵守

2. 退后, 靠后站：stand up站起来;竖立 | stand back退后, 靠后站 | stand with 一致;和......站在一起

3. 往后退：We'd better extinguish this magnesium.|我们最好把这些镁扑灭 | Stand back.|往后退 | Wow!|哇!

4. 退后一点：Oh, why didn't you say so?|怎么不早说? | Stand back.|退后一点 | Thanks.|谢谢

1. 置身事外，退一步(考虑问题)
If you stand back and think about a situation, you think about it as if you were not involved in it.

e.g. Stand back and look objectively at the problem.
退一步，客观地看待这个问题。

verb

1. stand away from an object or person

e.g. He stood back to look at her

2. stay clear of, avoid

e.g. Keep your hands off my wife!
Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous

Synonym: keep one's eyes offkeep one's distancekeep one's hands offstay away