we go way back

基本解释

Why can't we go back to the way things are?
为什么我们不能恢复到事物原来的样子？
And that cannot happen if we go back the way things were.
假如我们照老路子办事，就没有变革；
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And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.
如果我们仍然按照过去的方式行事，我们所寻求的改变将不会发生。

And in fact today, right now, we're going to move back the furthest we go, all the way into the nineteenth century to talk about the early Yeats.
实际上今天，现在，我们会回到很早的时候，直到十九世纪,来谈谈早期的叶芝。
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That's why we don't have an arrow here, because we could go back, this way too.
这就是为什么我们这里没有用箭头的原因，因为我们可以过渡回去，像这样。
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By the way, if we go back to this, another big part of disease--chronic disease that's related to diet, is the physical activity part of the equation.
顺便一说我们回过去看,大多数疾病,与饮食有关的慢性疾病,与一个关于肢体运动的方程式有关
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But Iowa, you and I, we go a long way back.
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