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 backward ['bækwɚd]   添加此单词到默认生词本
ad. 向后地, 相反地

a. 向后的, 相反的

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  1. He looked backward over his shoulder.
    他回头向后看。
  2. Although he is clever, he is backward in giving his views.
    他虽然很聪明，却不善发表他的意见。
  3. This part of the country is still backward.
    这个国家的这个地区仍很落后。


backward
[ adj ]
  1. directed or facing toward the back or rear

    2. <adj.all>
    a backward view
  2. (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature

    3. <adj.all>
    a backward lover
[ adv ]
  1. at or to or toward the back or rear

    2. <adv.all>
    he moved back
    tripped when he stepped backward
    she looked rearward out the window of the car
  2. in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal

    3. <adv.all>
    it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'
    the child put her jersey on backward
  3. in or to or toward a past time

    4. <adv.all>
    set the clocks back an hour
    never look back
    lovers of the past looking fondly backward
[ adj ]
  1. retarded in intellectual development

    2. <adj.all>
  2. having made less than normal progress

    3. <adj.all>
    an economically backward country


Backward \Back"ward\, a.
1. Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.

2. Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.

For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves. --Pope.

3. Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension;
dull; inapt; as, a backward child. ``The backward
learner.'' --South.

4. Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.

5. Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country
or region is in a backward state.

6. Already past or gone; bygone. [R.]

And flies unconscious o'er each backward year.
--Byron.


Backward \Back"ward\, Backwards \Back"wards\, adv. [Back, adv. +
-ward.]
1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride
backward.

2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms
backward.

3. On the back, or with the back downward.

Thou wilt fall backward. --Shak.

4. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.

Some reigns backward. --Locke.

5. By way of reflection; reflexively. --Sir J. Davies.

6. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame,
from religion to sin.

The work went backward. --Dryden.

7. In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction;
contrarily; as, to read backwards.

We might have . . . beat them backward home. --Shak.


Backward \Back"ward\, n.
The state behind or past. [Obs.]

In the dark backward and abysm of time. --Shak.


Backward \Back"ward\, v. t.
To keep back; to hinder. [Obs.]

  1. For Manuel Feliu, president of the Confederacion de Produccion y del Comercio, the first boom engineered by the Chicago Boys was an exercise in backward development.
  2. The agreement would benefit East Germany's backward economy by bringing it into a trade bloc of 320 million people. West Germany is already an influential EC member.
  3. As befits a movie filled with actors who first donned their uniforms 25 years ago, the film looks backward, to the old series, with cameos by such familiar faces as Grace Lee Whitney and Mark Lenard.
  4. Cutting back on fertilizer and killer chemicals to take care of bugs and weeds isn't a step backward at all, and may be the start of a long future journey for American farmers, an Agriculture Department conference was told Monday.
  5. "From the standpoint of being on the forefront of technology, this is a step backward," said Jerry W. Sprecher, a senior computing manager for the California state university system.
  6. Over the last three years, six local governments have fallen, usually leading to rule by a federal administrator. The gap between rich and poor is growing, as is an already sharp division between wealthy and backward regions.
  7. Repartee Backward, turn backward, O time in your flight; I just thought of a retort I needed last night.
  8. Historically, there is no louder uproar among politicians and press than the thunder evoked by the suggestion that foreigners, especially the backward Soviets, had outwitted Uncle Sam.
  9. They also want increased state investments to improve the economic lot of their backward region.
  10. Any action to reduce the pound's DM2.95 central rate in the European exchange rate mechanism - or to leave the ERM - would be seen as a huge backward step.
  11. North at one point started to testify that he might have gotten the conversation with Poindexter backward.
  12. Passports have been theoretically available to Albanians since May, but few of the backward nation's 3.2 million citizens have the hard currency needed for foreign travel.
  13. Despite limited restructuring this year by Communist leader Ramiz Alia, Albania remains Europe's most backward and isolated nation.
  14. Over the last three years, public sectors have certainly not been backward in coming forward.
  15. "It is proof that of all the democracies, Britain is the most backward," argues Young.
  16. He can count in three languages, recite the English alphabet forward and backward and read at an upper second-grade level.
  17. Federal safety officials said a possible defect in Nissan cars may cause seats to collapse backward without warning.
  18. Something here is backward.
  19. For the next several minutes, they were jolted up and down, backward and forward, and finally brought to a lurching halt.
  20. A subcontractor received backward blueprints for Hubble Space Telescope parts in 1981 by the telescope's prime contractor, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.
  21. Reforms are seen as a necessary step toward modernizing China's backward economy, not as a step toward capitalism or democracy.
  22. These have been cut out of or added on to some of the parts of the exhibition and mounted upside down or backward or both.
  23. Systems have been changed without a shot being fired," he said. "Why can't we do this? "We're a backward country; we resolve all our problems with bullets and with killing anyone who thinks differently.
  24. The muscled torso of a man falling over backward, the curled fingers of a tensed hand and the blood-soaked head of a revolutionary martyr are part of a major retrospective on fragmented human forms sculpted over the centuries.
  25. Sen. Metzenbaum asserted that escalating international competition, combined with what he called the domestic industry's "backward kind of leadership," threatens to further hurt U.S. steelmakers.
  26. "I'm not very strong on reminiscing," said Packard. "I think we ought to be looking forward instead of backward." The audio oscillator that the two started out with was a $79.50 model of a $400 machine sold by another company in the 1930s.
  27. City officials have rejected a proposal to name a street after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., triggering complaints from a black alderman that the decision was a step backward in race relations.
  28. But any sympathy Demjanjuk might have won was virtually undone by a stumbling defense team that seemed to move two steps backward for every step forward.
  29. A backward glance at last summer's lists also shows that the best recommendations don't necessarily come from the biggest and best-known brokerage houses.
  30. A 10-year-old boy, visiting on a class trip, keeled over backward when one of these creatures blared like a French horn in his face.
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