go back to

戻る、帰る

以前の場所、人、活動、または状況に戻る。

やさしい英語で： To return to a place, person, activity, or earlier situation.

• We must go back to the hotel.
• She went back to her hometown last year.
• Will you go back to teaching after the summer?

使い方： go back to someone/something (I do not want to go back to my old job.); go back to doing something (He went back to reading after the call.)

類義語： return to

よく使う表現： go back to bed, go back to school

さかのぼる、始まる

過去のある時点で始まった、または初めて存在した。

やさしい英語で： To have begun or first existed at a particular time in the past.

• The custom goes back to ancient times.
• Their dispute goes back to the last election.
• These village celebrations go back to the eighteenth century.

使い方： go back to a time (This tradition goes back to the Middle Ages.)

類義語： date from, originate in

よく使う表現： go back to antiquity, go back to childhood

以来の知り合いである

人々が過去のある時点から互いを知っている。

やさしい英語で： If people do this, they have known each other since a particular time in the past.

• Ben and I go back to college.
• Those two go back to their first job.
• Do you and Sara go back to primary school?

使い方： someone and someone go back to a time (Maya and I go back to our school days.)

類義語： know each other since

よく使う表現： go back to school, go back to college