"go back to square one" in Chinese (Simplified)

• 回到原点
• 从头再来

Definition

在某事失败或没有进展后从头再来。

Usage Notes (Chinese (Simplified))

非正式表达，用于表示事情彻底失败或需要完全重来。常用于工作、学习和解决问题的语境。与 “重头开始” 意思相近，只在必须全面重来的情况下用。

Examples

After our project failed, we had to go back to square one.

项目失败后，我们不得不**回到原点**。

If this plan doesn't work, we'll go back to square one.

如果这个方案不行，我们就得**从头再来**。

She lost all her work and had to go back to square one.

她丢失了所有工作，不得不**回到原点**。

Looks like we made a mistake—time to go back to square one and rethink our strategy.

看起来我们搞错了——得**从头再来**，重新思考策略。

I lost my keys again, so I guess it's time to go back to square one and search my whole house.

我又把钥匙弄丢了，看样子得**回到原点**，把整个房子找一遍。

We thought we had fixed the bug, but it keeps happening, so we're just going to go back to square one.

我们以为修好了这个问题，但它还是出现，所以我们只能**从头再来**。