hark back

evocar, volver a

Retomar un tema anterior o recordar una época pasada, a veces con nostalgia.

En inglés sencillo: To bring back an earlier topic, or remind people of an earlier time and sometimes wish for it.

• The music harks back to her childhood.
• He kept harking back to our earlier argument.
• These stories hark back to a time when everyone knew their neighbours.

Cómo se usa: hark back to something (The design harks back to the 1950s.)

Sinónimos: recall, evoke, return to

Expresiones frecuentes: hark back to something, hark back again

volver sobre el rastro

Volver los perros de caza por el camino recorrido para recuperar el olor del animal que seguían.

En inglés sencillo: When hunting dogs lose an animal’s smell, they go back along their route to find it again.

• The hounds harked back after losing the scent.
• Watch the dogs hark back along the trail.
• The pack will hark back until it finds the fox’s scent.

Sinónimos: retrace

Expresiones frecuentes: hounds hark back, hark back again

volver sobre sus pasos

Regresar por el mismo camino que se ha recorrido.

En inglés sencillo: To go back along a route you have already taken.

• We harked back to the gate.
• They had to hark back along the muddy path.
• Shall we hark back to the village before dark?

Cómo se usa: hark back to somewhere (The travellers harked back to the bridge.)

Sinónimos: retrace one’s steps, return

Expresiones frecuentes: hark back home, hark back again

llamar de vuelta a los sabuesos

Llamar a los perros de caza para que vuelvan junto a uno.

En inglés sencillo: To call hunting dogs back to you.

• He harked back the hounds.
• The hunter tried to hark the dogs back with his horn.
• She harked back the pack before it reached the road.

Cómo se usa: hark back something (The huntsman harked back the hounds.)

Sinónimos: recall, call back

Expresiones frecuentes: hark back hounds, hark hounds back

vuelta sobre el rastro

Regreso de los perros de caza por el camino recorrido para recuperar el olor del animal que seguían.

En inglés sencillo: A return along an earlier route by hunting dogs looking for an animal’s lost smell.

• A hark back helped the hounds find the scent.
• The pack made another hark back along the trail.
• After a brief hark back, the hunt continued.

Expresiones frecuentes: a hark back, another hark back

evocación, retorno

Vuelta a un tema anterior o algo que recuerda una época pasada.

En inglés sencillo: A return to an earlier topic, or something that brings an earlier time to mind.

• This dress is a hark back to an earlier era.
• His speech included a hark back to our first meeting.
• The ending offers another hark back to the book’s opening theme.

Cómo se usa: a hark back to something (The song is a hark back to her youth.)

Sinónimos: reminder, echo, return

Expresiones frecuentes: a hark back, hark back to something