请教一个短语walk anything back的意思。

wherestip wrote:

而不是迫使每个人都得从零开始, 即 start from square one. ( 🈯️ 如此不必人人都从头再学崭新的功能设置的操作)


[Edited at 2014-04-08 00:22 GMT]

clearwater wrote:


谢谢！

再试：
不过，苹果仅仅为有需要的那些人增添了相关选项，{而不是为每个人将任何功能都推倒重来}。

但愿这回比较靠谱：）

David Lin wrote:

也听过相似的故事：

一个朋友和家人吃睌饭时，说了一个新闻故事。大家听了后，他那个在英国长大，自以为很追上新闻脉搏的儿子说，你说的新闻已经是老消息了 （old news)。

不是新闻！

：）

wherestip wrote:



clearwater,

Excellent. I like it.

但苹果公司因为不愿意普遍取消系统中的（新）任何功能，影响所有用户，所以仅仅推出一些新的选择项目来满足有需要的用户。

wherestip wrote:



clearwater,

不谢。 仔细斟酌一下，Phil 所建议的版本也非常好。 不仅意思准确， 而且语言非常通顺。

The only thing I would consider changing is to replace 新 with 任何。

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wherestip wrote:

J.H.,

I'm not an iOS user, so I don't know whether the new release 7.1 reverts back to some of the older functionalities or some of the functional settings of iOS6.

But if you scan through this Wikipedia page, it does not give one such an impression.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_7

wherestip wrote:

The whole point is they DIDN'T walk back on any of the main functionalities of their iOS7 original release.

Whether "walking back" - which didn't occur - in this instance means abandoning some of the functions that had some usability issues and coming up with a better approach(functionality, user interface, etc), or returning to the way things had worked in iOS6 is debatable.

However, from a mere language standpoint, "walking something back" in most situations mean "retract", not "revert".

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/retract?s=t

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/revert?s=t

J.H. Wang wrote:

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/walk%20back

我根据 walk back 的原始含义，to return to something or some place on foot，感觉这里用的是引申义，就是指 return to a previous state。

wherestip wrote:



J.H.,

How should I say this? IMO, this is not the right definition for this particular usage in this context. Instead, the idiom definition cited by pk is the one to look to.

J.H. Wang wrote:




如果按 retract 理解的话，或许应该翻译为“收回”、“撤回”才算比较准确些。