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But this popular service, has also many drawbacks that the most significant one relates back to sentence translation.


He is a very aggressive man. His behavior returns back to his awful childhood.

First, Do "relates back" or "returns back" make sense? I'm looking for a word like dates back which is common [as a help].

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  • I was unable to grasp the meaning of the first sentence. ( Or otherwise prior/latter context provided. )
    – user17814
    Commented Sep 17, 2017 at 3:01

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For your second sentence

relates back

would be more appropriate since you may want to show a relationship between the present and the past

His behavior relates back to his awful childhood.

would show his current "aggression" is due to his "awful childhood".

returns back

might be used to described what caused him to "return" back to his childhood

The events caused him to return back to his awful childhood.

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The first one is OK with some grammar adjustment:

But this popular service also has many drawbacks; the most significant one relates back to sentence translation.

For the second example, you could say:

He is a very aggressive man. His behavior reflects on his awful childhood.

See reflect:

  1. verb
    If an action or situation reflects in a particular way on someone or something, it gives people a good or bad impression of them.

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