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to hark back to:

1-If you say that one thing harks back to another thing in the past, you mean it is similar to it or takes it as a model.

 Ex.: ...pitched roofs, which hark back to the Victorian era.

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2-When people hark back to something in the past, they remember it or remind someone of it.

Ex.: The result devastated me at the time. Even now I hark back to it.

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hark back (to)
برگشتن ، بازگشت ، عطف كردن
به یاد آوردن, به فکر ادم اوردن
(دوباره ) در نظر مجسم كردن ،
(از راه حافظه يا تخيل ) گذشته را تن مند يا زنده كردن
(گذشته را) به خاطر آوردن ، ياد آوردن ،
(درباره ى گذشته ها) نوشتن ، حرف زدن
تجديد خاطر كردن
 

hark back (to)
to bring back to mind (synonym: flash back)
to remember and talk about things that happened in the past

Examples:
•  It’s useless to continually hark back to the past.

• But Joan was harking back to that awful day.

• Something in that statement harked back to what that other astrologer had said.



Source: Longman Dictionary
https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/hark-back