beat a hasty retreat

常見(jiàn)例句

The point of the scary frill is to give the lizard enough time to beat a hasty retreat, rocketing up the nearest arboreal loft.
恐嚇皺褶的目的是給蜥蜴足夠的時(shí)間倉(cāng)皇撤退，竄入最近的樹叢中。
Don't beat a hasty retreat, and don't leave the building; tell your abuser that you're late for an appointment with HR, for example.
別匆忙撤退，也別離開辦公樓；告訴你的惡霸，你有約會(huì)，比如，和HR的約會(huì)，要晚了。
Although the polar bear did not exactly beat a hasty retreat, it came no further inland after encountering the hostile 'welcoming' committee and shuffled off elsewhere.
北極熊沒(méi)有馬上打退堂鼓，在碰到充滿敵意的“歡迎”委員會(huì)后，它搖擺著去了別處，沒(méi)有深入島內(nèi)。

Oil prices beat a hasty retreat Monday, as the dollar firmed up and the prospect of diplomatic talks with Iran soothed fears of a military strike.
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Americans remaining at the embassy were forced to beat a hasty retreat, evacuating into helicopters from rooftops as South Vietnamese friends and associates begged — mostly unsuccessfully — to be taken along.
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