backward
/ˈbækwɚd/ 副词 C2中文： 向后、往后、朝后
- At, near or towards the rear of something. · The passenger turned around and walked backward, towards the tail of the aircraft.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing. · He tilted his head backward.· The grandfather clock toppled backward and crashed to the ground.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement. · In reverse gear the wheel turns backward.
- Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state. · This project seems to be going backward.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front. · He had his cap on backward.
- In a reversed order or sequence. · A palindrome reads the same backward as forward.
- Toward or into the past. · As we begin the new millennium, it behoves us to look backward as well as forward.
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
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We beg them to take one step backward, and to transport themselves, the morning of that day of great catastrophes, into the showy, gilded salon we have before shown them, and which was the pride of its owner, Baron Danglars.
Rikki-tikki smashed two eggs, and tumbled backward down the melon-bed with the third egg in his mouth, and scuttled to the veranda as hard as he could put foot to the ground.
Rikki-tikki jumped up and backward.
“I just guess she has done well, and far be it from me to be backward in saying it.
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