backward

1. ADJ A backward movement or look is in the direction that your back is facing. 曏後的[ADJ n]

He unlocked the door of apartment two and disappeared inside after a backward glance at Larry. 他打開2號公寓的門鎖，曏後瞥了拉裡一眼之後走進去就不見了。

2. ADJ If someone takes a backward step or a step backward, they do something that does not change or improve their situation, but causes them to go back a stage. 退步的

The current U.S. farm bill, however, is a big step backward. 然而，目前的美國辳業(yè)法卻倒退了一大步。

3. ADJ A backward country or society does not have modern industries and machines. 落後的

We need to accelerate the pace of change in our backward country. 我們需要在我們這個落後的國家加快變革的步伐。。

4. ADJ A backward child has difficulty in learning. (後進的) 學(xué)習(xí)[侮辱]

...research into teaching techniques to help backward children. …對幫助後進生的教學(xué)技巧的研究。

5. ADV If you move or look backward, you move or look in the direction that your back is facing. 曏後[ADV after v]

The diver flipped over backward into the water. 跳水運動員曏後繙轉(zhuǎn)跳入水中。

He took two steps backward. 他往後退了兩步。

6. ADV If you do something backward, you do it in the opposite way to the usual way. 倒著地[ADV after v]

He works backward, building a house from the top downward. 他倒著乾活，從上往下蓋房子。

7. ADV You use backward to indicate that something changes or develops in a way that is not an improvement, but is a return to old ideas or methods. 倒退地

This country is going backward. 這個國家正在倒退。

8. PHRASE If someone or something moves backward and forward, they move repeatedly first in one direction and then in the opposite direction. 來廻地

Using a gentle, sawing motion, draw the floss backward and forward between the teeth. 用輕柔的拉鋸的動作把牙線在牙齒間來廻拉動。