English-Spanish translations for look back

• volver la cabeza
• acordarse
• mirar hacia atrás
  Me complace que este debate nos brinde la oportunidad de mirar hacia atrás para poder avanzar de nuevo. I am pleased that this debate gives us the opportunity to look back in order to move forward again.
  Ha sido un proceso largo y penoso y todos los que han intervenido en él pueden ahora mirar hacia atrás con la conciencia tranquila. It was a long and painful process and everyone who played a part can now look back on it with a clear conscience.
  Tampoco yo quiero mirar hacia atrás con ira, sino mirar al futuro, y debemos aprender de los errores que hemos cometido. I do not wish to look back in anger today either: I prefer to look to the future, and we must learn the lessons from the mistakes that we have made.
• recordar
  Después de todo, Solidarność puede recordar tres grandes logros. After all, Solidarność can look back on three great achievements.
  En mi opinión, podemos mirar atrás para recordar cómo este Parlamento se esforzó por eliminar los obstáculos a los pagos transfronterizos el año pasado. I believe that we can look back on the way in which this Parliament worked to eliminate obstacles to cross-border payments last year.
  Deberíamos recordar el origen de aquellos cruentos acontecimientos de hace nueve años, cuando las fuerzas armadas serbias sometieron a los albaneses a un genocidio. We should look back at the root of those bloody events nine years ago when Serbian military forces committed genocide against the Albanians.
• ver hacia atrás
• volverse hacia atrás

Definition of look back

• To reconsider or regret

Synonyms

• wax nostalgic
• recall
• remember
• hark back
• review
• think back
• recollect

Examples

• When I look back at my summer holidays as a child, I smile.
• You do what you have to do, and dont look back.

Related words

• look as if one came out of a bandbox
• things are not as bad as they look
• if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck