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come back

/kuhm-bak/US // ˈkʌmˌbæk //UK // (ˈkʌmˌbæk) //

回来,回归,回来了,再来

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a return to a former higher rank, popularity, position, prosperity, etc.: The ex-champion kept trying to make a comeback.
    • : a clever or effective retort; rejoinder; riposte: That was a great comeback the comedian made to the hecklers.
    • : Informal. a basis or cause of complaint: If you insist on buying these pointed shoes, you'll have no comeback when your toes start to hurt.

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Examples

  • The Washington Nationals are no strangers to long-shot comeback bids.

  • Now, thanks to Covid-19, the custom appears poised to make at least a modest comeback, according to three transportation companies that spoke to Quartz.

  • It’s not often that a 19th century old technology makes a comeback.

  • Free throws, which had been steadily dropping in the 3-point era, made a comeback.

  • Colleges and universities have constantly shifted their comeback plans, but at this point about 25 percent plan to be mostly online, 21 percent primarily in person, 15 percent taking a hybrid approach … and 27 percent TBD.

  • The Comeback was, without question, one of the year's best and funniest comedies.

  • We might have thought The Comeback was about a desperate actress's shameless struggle for fame.

  • If laughter is the best medicine, The Comeback made you feel enough pain to need a dose—and then it delivered in spades.

  • When you think about all of that, the success of this Comeback run is all the more impressive.

  • It's been nine years that fans of The Comeback have been clamoring for HBO to "give her another take."

  • Now, with every chance for a comeback, Nan wanted me to pass!

  • Fergus made an extremely poor showing on Memorial Day, and the manager thinks this odd bull would provide a real comeback!

  • The only American comeback to this growing prejudice is to build factories or assembling plants within the British Isles.

  • Old Jim Lough is cautious and reliable, but he's set the date of the comeback too far off.

  • I gawps curious over at J. Bayard to see what comeback he has to this dose of mush, and finds him starin' foolish at her.