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在…后面
If something is behind a thing or person, it is on the other side of them from you, or nearer their back rather than their front.
例句
I put one of the cushions behind his head...
我把其中的一個軟墊墊在他腦后。
They were parked behind the truck...
他們停在了卡車后面。
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跟在…后面
If you are walking or travelling behind someone or something, you are following them.
例句
Keith wandered along behind him...
基思跟在他后面閑逛。
Myra and Sam and the children were driving behind them.
邁拉和薩姆帶著孩子們開車跟在他們的后面。
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在（桌子、柜臺、吧臺等）的后面
If someone is behind a desk, counter, or bar, they are on the other side of it from where you are.
例句
The colonel was sitting behind a cheap wooden desk...
上校坐在一張廉價的木桌后面。
He could just about see the little man behind the counter.
他勉強能看到柜臺后面的小個子男人。
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在…身后（隨手關上門）
When you shut a door or gate behind you, you shut it after you have gone through it.
例句
I walked out and closed the door behind me...
我走了出來，隨手帶上了門。
He slammed the gate shut behind him.
他砰的一聲帶上了大門。
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在（某一局勢）背后（或幕后）
The people, reason, or events behind a situation are the causes of it or are responsible for it.
例句
It is still not clear who was behind the killing...
兇殺案的幕后主使尚不清楚。
He is embarrassed about the motives behind his decision.
關于這項決策的背后動機，他覺得難以啟齒。
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支持；作為…的后盾
If something or someone is behind you, they support you and help you.
例句
He had the state's judicial power behind him.
他有國家司法權作后盾。
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在（…的外表）之下
If you refer to what is behind someone's outside appearance, you are referring to a characteristic which you cannot immediately see or is not obvious, but which you think is there.
例句
What lay behind his anger was really the hurt he felt at Grace's refusal...
他生氣的表面之下是因遭格雷斯拒絕而深受傷害的心。
Behind the smiling eyes lurks the evil that led her to murder the two babies in her care.
她笑里藏刀，殺害了她照顧的兩個寶寶。
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不及；比不上；落后于
If you are behind someone, you are less successful than them, or have done less or advanced less.
例句
She finished second behind the American, Ann Cody, in the 800 metres...
她在800米賽跑中落后于美國選手安·科迪而位居第二。
Food production has already fallen behind the population growth.
糧食生產已經跟不上人口增長。
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對…來說成為過去；拋到…的腦后
If an experience is behind you, it happened in your past and will not happen again, or no longer affects you.
例句
Maureen put the nightmare behind her...
莫琳已將噩夢拋諸腦后。
He will attempt to put behind him the misery of failing to win a medal in his individual event.
他會盡力忘掉自己沒能在個人項目上奪牌的痛苦。
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有（某種成就）
If you have a particular achievement behind you, you have managed to reach this achievement, and other people consider it to be important or valuable.
例句
He has 20 years of loyal service to Barclays Bank behind him...
他已經忠心耿耿地為巴克萊銀行效力了20年。
Birgit was a popular actress with half a decade of filmmaking behind her.
比吉特曾是一位當紅女演員，有著五年的從影經歷。
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落后于；遲于；晚于
If something is behind schedule, it is not as far advanced as people had planned. If someone is behind schedule, they are not progressing as quickly at something as they had planned.
例句
The work is 22 weeks behind schedule...
這項工作比計劃滯后了22周。
We were two months behind schedule, and already over budget.
我們的進度晚了兩個月，而且已經超出了預算。
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ADV
留在原處；留下來
If you stay behind, you remain in a place after other people have gone.
例句
As women were not permitted in the war zone, Eleanor would have to stay behind...
女性是不允許進入戰區的，所以埃莉諾不得不留在后方。
About 1,200 personnel will remain behind to take care of the air base.
大約會有1,200人留守看管這個空軍基地。
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丟下；拋下
If you leave something or someone behind, you do not take them with you when you go.
例句
The rebels fled into the mountains, leaving behind their weapons and supplies...
叛軍丟下武器和給養，逃進了山里。
He came to Saudi Arabia, leaving behind his wife and their three children.
他拋下妻子和三個孩子來到了沙特阿拉伯。