Meaning
1. 元に戻す: 例えば、以前に言ったことを取り消す場合に使います。誰かが発言を後悔して、「自分の言ったことを撤回します」と言いたいときに「I take back what I said」と表現します。
2. 取り戻す: 物を誰かから返してもらう場合にも使われます。「この本を貸してくれてありがとう。今度は自分のところに取り戻します」と言いたいときに「I'll take back the book now」と言えます。
3. 思い出させる: 「Take back」は過去の出来事や感情を思い出させることも意味します。例えば、「この曲を聴くと、学生時代を思い出します」と言いたいときは「This song takes me back to my school days」となります。
これらのように、「Take back」は状況に応じて使い分けられる多機能な表現です。Today's Sentences
- I didn’t mean it. I take it back.
- This old song takes me back to our summer road trips.
- Writer's Note
01
I didn’t mean it. I take it back.
Situation
Did you seriously just say my cooking tastes like cardboard?
I didn’t mean it.
I take it back.
「I take it back.」
Too late.
The spaghetti is now emotionally unavailable.
スパゲッティはもう心を開いてくれません。
Tell it I’m sorry and I’ll bring garlic bread as a peace offering.
02
This old song takes me back to our summer road trips.
Situation
Hey, listen!
They’re playing our song!
私たちの曲が流れているよ！
This old song takes me back to our summer road trips.
Windows down and singing off-key.
I think we even took the extra long route, just to keep the music going.
Writer's Note
"Take back" is a transitive and separable phrasal verb.
- Transitive - Requires an object in the phrase for the sentence to make sense.
Example 1: That song really takes me back to high school.
Example 2: We took back the curtains and exchanged them for a different style.
Example 3: He took back what he said about the team. - Separable - An object can be placed between the particle "take" and the verb "back".
Example 1: I took the shoes back because they didn’t fit.
Example 2: The smell of rain takes me back to childhood summers.
Example 3: That photo takes me back to my first year abroad.
例1: その曲は本当に私を高校時代に戻らせてくれます。
例2: 私たちはカーテンを返品して、別のスタイルのものと交換しました。
例3: 彼はチームについて言ったことを撤回しました。
例 1: I took the shoes back because they didn’t fit.
例 2: The smell of rain takes me back to childhood summers.
例 3: That photo takes me back to my first year abroad.
Related Words: Apologize, cancel, disavow, recant, recall, reclaim, recoup, redress, refute, renounce, repeal, repudiate, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, undo, withdraw.
