The English and their allies were steadily retreating all over the field.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.

勇敢是我与生俱来的神秘，智慧是我熟稔于心的能力：,因为错过撤退的行军队列,没能和他们一起进入空虚的没有围墙的大本营。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Actually, those guys would be useful, not so much, hardly at all during the scrum of the phalanx, but should one side be retreating.

尽管远程兵种的作用有限,尤其是双方混战时几乎形同虚设,但当一方撤退时,他们的作用就显现了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Protesters and soldiers took turns pushing towards each other then retreating.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

He spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria, but he died in London and he escaped to London soon after retreating there at the beginning of World War II as the Nazis began to occupy where he lived.

他的大半生都是居住在奥地利的维也纳，却在伦敦去世,二战伊始，随着纳粹侵占其家乡,他被迫背井离乡,后来逃到伦敦，在那里终其余生。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Pachauri however says that the controversy should not take away attention from the fact that Himalayan glaciers like those in other parts of the world are in fact retreating due to global warming.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23