English Dictionary

hark back

/ˌhɑːk ˈbæk/

verb

(hunting) Of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey. / (by extension) To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.

I often hark back to my childhood memories.

意味（1）

(hunting) Of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.

意味（2）

(by extension) To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.

He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. So he turned his weary horse's head, and made his way back along the road to the spot where his spoor struck into it.

意味（3）

(figuratively) To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event).

Mr. Flemyng, who had been assuaging his thirst with more champagne during the afternoon, had harked back to the subject of his morning's discourse, and was laying down an authoritative scheme of ethics, in the course of which sundry hard words, such as transcendentalism, pseudo-materialism and the like, lost a syllable here and there.

意味（4）

(transitive, hunting) To call back (hounds); to recall.