backward
落后
definition
adverb
he took a step backward
(of a movement) away from one's front; in the direction of one's back.
a loving look backward at his early life
toward or into the past.
adjective
she left the room without a backward glance
directed behind or to the rear.
economically backward countries
having made less than normal progress.
translation of 'backward'
adverb
往后,
向后,
落后
adjective
保守,
后进,
向后的
example
It was a bit of a 'backward' step for us after some decent performances and we will have to lift our game again for the next matches.
Let all those who plundered money in the name of running banks give loans to those economically 'backward' people.
For example, you have in Mexico, poor people who are agriculturally 'backward' .
It sounds like a spiritual step 'backward' , yet she seems like an intelligent and thoughtful woman.
‘It was not a 'backward' step,’ said the veteran, quite vehemently.
Claire took a couple of steps 'backward' to get a better perspective of the painting.
Yet we are not some 'backward' , powerless people who must flee to our caves.
I have been steadily taking 'backward' steps in my gaming.
The book gives us a 'backward' glance of Ballaghaderreen; it is the touching for a moment of the familiar places of the town.
Historians in the late 19th and early 20th centuries worked 'backward' and pieced it together.
Pip is more embarrassed than ever by Joe's ‘ignorance’ and even tells Biddy that he thinks Joe is 'backward' .
It's not my kind of place at all - plus it would feel somewhat like a 'backward' step, a retrograde manoeuvre, a return to a place of history.
Alvin slapped the door shut behind him with a 'backward' scrape of his heel, to muffle the shouting from the neighbors, and sidled along the wall away from her.
He turned his hat 'backward' and snapped shots of his teammates warming up.
The fur naps to the rear, thus sliding forward and resisting 'backward' movement.
Few successful players can omit the 'backward' movement.
Punch magazine's comic stereotypes caricaturing agricultural labourers as 'backward' yokels in smocks and chewing straws flourished in the 1870s and live on to this day.
It was a 'backward' step for women and for civil rights generally.
A man who is just standing, no matter how strong he may be, will falter 'backward' if you push him from the front.
At some point next week in a courtroom in Memphis, college football will take one giant leap 'backward' when the gavel strikes and a trial ends.
The general consensus seems to be that a return to a full winter season would be a 'backward' step - and not just because of the impracticalities.
In reality it's because I'm 'backward' and useless.
He has never flinched, never buckled, never taken a 'backward' step in defending the rights of our editors and journalists to find the news and report it in a fair and balanced way.
Tinkering with criminal law is a 'backward' step in countering the deep cultural realities of homophobia, racism, sexism.
As part of its social service, the college has decided to induct 15 students from economically 'backward' families and impart free education to them from this year.
The moment the interview finished, Cameron marched briskly away to his next appointment, with not even a 'backward' glance at his rival.
After about 3 weeks Mercury ceases its 'backward' movement and, on reversing its direction again, once more slows down and appears to halt before moving back in a direct motion.
The Scandinavian monarchies were transformed from poor and rather 'backward' societies into prosperous agricultural democracies.
But we in the Western society have called them primitive, as 'backward' people, that we need to come and somehow or other educate.
They were 'backward' , discriminatory, and wasted their nations' resources in decadent indulgences.
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