stretch back

基本解释

Warnings that curiosity can be destructive stretch back to the very beginning of civilisation.
对于好奇心具有破坏作用的警告可以追溯到教化之初。
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Peru's many cultures stretch back for more than 5, 000 years, way beyond the Incas and their Spanish conquerors.
秘鲁许多文明可以追溯至5000多年以前，远在印加人和西班牙征服者之前。
These are aspirations that stretch back through the ages – aspirations at the heart of Judaism, at the heart of Christianity, at the heart of all of the world's great religions.
这些都是回溯到那个时代的渴望，在犹太教心中的渴望，在基督教心中的渴望，以及全世界伟大宗教心中的渴望。

"And like the broader American citizenry, the American Muslim community is one of extraordinary dynamism and diversity - with families that stretch back generations and more recent immigrants;
Some of these books which we think are roughly from a certain date, they will contain narrative snippets or legal materials or oral traditions that may even date back or stretch back further in time, and they were perhaps transmitted orally and then ended up in these written forms.
有些篇章只是被我们粗略地认为出现于那个年代，其中包含的故事片段或律法材料或口头传统,其实也许能够追溯到更久远，所以这些很可能一开始是被口头传播,后来才用文字形式记载的。
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Now, that was true in Sloane but I think Luce has got very good acoustics so you can stretch out in the back.
在斯隆那边确实是这样的,但是卢斯这里的音响效果很好,所以在后面也能睡好
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Those fears stretch back to the Korean War and the nuclear gamesmanship of the Cold War.
NPR: NKorea: Cold War History With US Justifies Nukes