He's a reformed criminal who may yet backslide. 他是个经过改造的罪犯,然而仍有可能故态复萌。
He's a reformed criminal who may yet backslide. 他是个经过改造的罪犯,然而仍有可能故态复萌。
You're doing excellent work now, I hope you won't backslide. 你现在工作的很好,我希望你不会故态复萌。
backslide backslid, backslidden
[ verb ] drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards <verb.change>lapse
Backslide \Back"slide"\ (b[a^]k"sl[imac]d"; 277), v. i. [imp. {Backslid}; p. p. {Backslidden}, {Backslid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Backsliding}.] [Back, adv. + slide.] To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
Such an attitude contributed to a paternalistic and homey feeling, but it also is blamed by some for Kidder Peabody's backslide in the 1980s.