Now the site is prepared, it's time to set some remote cameras, and beat a hasty retreat.

现在正在做现场准备安装远程摄像机，然后赶紧撤离。

In a matter of seconds, he butchers the haunch of the wildebeest, and they beat a hasty retreat.

大约几秒钟以后，他割下了牛羚的一条大腿，然后他们迅速地撤离了。

He beat a hasty retreat when he spotted me.

【beat】他一看到我就赶紧溜走了。

I saw my aunt coming and beat a hasty retreat.

【retreat】我看到我姨妈来了便赶快离开。

He was glad to get away with a mere twenty pounds and he beat a hasty retreat, clutching the preicous bottle under his arm.

他庆幸自己只破费了20英镑就得以脱身。他把那只宝贵的瓶子夹在腋下，溜之大吉。

He was glad to get away with a mere twenty pounds and he beat a hasty retreat, clutching the precious bottle under his arm.

他庆幸自己只破费了20英镑便得以脱身。他把那宝贵的瓶子放在腋下夹着，溜之大吉。

With temperatures here rising twice as fast as those in the Lower 48, many of the state's glaciers are beating a hasty retreat.

由于这里的气温上升速度是美国本土 48 州的两倍，该州的许多冰川正在仓促撤退。

The whole cone was jarred by the blow and some fragments of the mass sped past me dangerously near; so I beat a hasty retreat, chilled and drenched, and lay down on a sunny rock to dry.

整个圆锥体都被这一击震动了，一些碎片危险地从我身边飞过；所以我匆忙撤退，又冷又湿，躺在一块阳光充足的岩石上晒干。

At the sound of footsteps Swithin beat a hasty retreat up-stairs, where he struck a light, and revealed a table covered with books and papers, while round the walls hung star-maps, and other diagrams illustrative of celestial phenomena.

听到脚步声，斯威森匆忙撤退到楼上，他点了盏灯，露出一张桌子，上面放满了书籍和文件，墙上挂着星图和其他说明天体现象的图表。

" To beat a hasty retreat" means to go back to where you were because you are being beaten, you are being defeated, and you need to go back and protect yourself – back to the place where you began.

“打退堂鼓” 的意思是回到原来的地方， 因为你被打了， 你被打败了，你需要回去保护自己——回到你开始的地方。