backward

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1 [only before noun]BACK/BACKWARDS looking or facing in the direction that is behind you 向后的，朝后的 OPP forward

She went without a backward glance.

她头也不回地走了。

2 PROGRESSdeveloping slowly and less successfully than most others 发展缓慢的，落后的

a backward country

落后的国家

a backward child

迟钝的孩子

—backwardness noun [uncountableU]

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backward• The people there are a little bit backward.• It's one of the more backward countries.• With barely a backward glance, I was on my way to freedom.• a backward look• Was it universally backward or were there variations between different sectors and branches of industry?• If our political economy remains backward, our intellectual economy has leaped ahead.• But instances like the Primitives get rarer and already one feels ashamed for indulging such backward passions.• That backward path is the foundation of Western, linear logic.• That will have been the aim and meaning of his entire backward quest.• For instance, stomach muscles propel the motion on forward and backward rolls.• New policies on developing the backward western provinces and improving health, education and social welfare are stressed.

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