There seems to be no going back and the way forward remains uncertain.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

There's just no way to explain that except to say that catalog of ships goes back to the Mycenaean Period.

除非《船舶名录》来源于迈锡尼文明时期,否则这点就无法解释了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The sense of going back and forth, no one of us on top, not correspondent in a vertical way, how things going down there.

这种来来回回的感觉，没有人是在高处，也没人在低处。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选