hang back

英 [hæŋ bæk]

美 [hæŋ bæk]

（通常指因紧张而）略微退缩; 拖延; 拖拉

柯林斯词典

PHRASAL VERB （通常指因紧张而）退缩，躲避
If youhang back, you move or stay slightly behind a person or group, usually because you are nervous about something.
1. I saw him step forward momentarily but then hang back, nervously massaging his hands.
  我看到他走上前，但很快又缩了回来，紧张地搓着手。
PHRASAL VERB 拖延;拖拉
If a person or organizationhangs back, they do not do something immediately.
1. They will then hang back on closing the deal...
  他们接着会拖延生意的成交。
2. Even his closest advisers believe he should hang back no longer.
  即便是和他关系最密切的顾问都认为他不应该再拖下去了。

verb

to lag or linger behind
1. But in so many other areas we still are dragging
Synonym:dragtrailget behinddrop behinddrop back

To cause to hang back or fall behind.
落后于使畏缩不前或落后。
Some people prefer to hang back from the crowd.
有些人喜欢与人们保持距离。
Who can make it clear, in this door one step away, perhaps will make you helpless and without resources, hang back.
谁能说清，在这一步之遥的门内，或许会让你手足无措，望而却步。
Don't hang back waiting for other people to make the first move.
不要干等着别人迈出第一步。
But the interdisciplinary characteristic of Bioinformatics technology, such as complicated mathematics counting 、 logic analysis, visual data, Often makes biologists hang back.
然而生物信息技术具有跨学科的特点，其中复杂的数学计算、逻辑推导、数据可视化往往令生物学家望而却步。
Please hang up and we'll call you back.
请挂断，我们会打给你。
You iosers should hang out in the back.
你们这些衰人站在后面。
Don't hang back in the face of difficulties.
不要因为困难而却步。
When a thing is to be told, why, tell it, and don't hang back.
既然有话要说，那就痛痛快快地说出来，不要吞吞吐吐。
Even his closest advisers believe he should hang back no longer.
即便是和他关系最密切的顾问都认为他不应该再拖下去了。