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Pointing toward what is behind you rather than ahead: the head turning, the step going the wrong way down the road. Once 'ahead' means progress, being turned toward the back stops being about direction and becomes about .

可以想成一個朝向身後的方向感：頭轉回去看、腳往後退，該往前的卻朝著後面。等到「前面」不再只是路，而是變成進步、發展的…更多收起可以想成一個朝向身後的方向感：頭轉回去看、腳往後退，該往前的卻朝著後面。等到「前面」不再只是路，而是變成進步、發展的方向，這個朝後的姿勢就不只是在講動作了——它變成在講一個人、一個地方留在後頭，別人都走遠了。

原始詞典資料27 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

backwardadj/ˈbæk.wə(ɹ)d/

  • 1

    Indicating position or direction.

    • The silt collects in the backward part of the tank.
  • 2

    Indicating position or direction.

    • a backward tilt of the head
  • 3

    Indicating position or direction.

    • The occasional apparent backward movement of planets is evidence that they revolve around the sun.
    • Engage the lock to prevent backward rotation of the wheel.
  • 4

    Indicating position or direction.

    • This is a backward step for the country.
  • 5

    Indicating position or direction.

    • This backward writing is hard to read.
  • 6

    Expressing lack of development or advancement.

    • The child is backward in his school work.
    • The effect is to retard their progress—giving them too little opportunity and too little incentive for copying the language of adults— and a little later the child is pained and the parents' ears tingle at hearing a chance remark: “ How terribly backward she is about talking."
  • 7

    Expressing lack of development or advancement.

    • They were a backward people without any writing.
    • Most cruelly, the immediate security interests of the United States and the states surrounding Somalia are now to keep it a failed state, to prevent Islamists from consolidating even a weak state centered on Mogadishu. The leader of the victorious faction, one Aden Hashi 'Ayro, is said to be a veteran of Afghanistan; he knows well what a small sanctuary in a backward corner of the globe can mean for al Qaeda.
  • 8

    Expressing lack of development or advancement.

    • a backward child
另外 8 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Expressing lack of development or advancement.

    • The party’s ideas and policies are very backward.
  • 10

    Expressing lack of development or advancement.

    • a backward season
    • "[…] I've a job of work to finish tonight; mourning, as must be in time for the funeral to-morrow; and grandfather has been out moss- hunting, and will not be home till late." "Oh, how charming it will be! I'll help you if you're backward. Have you much to do?"
  • 11

    Reluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.

    • She certainly isn’t backward in coming forward!
    • Then her eyes, always alert for the affairs of her kitchen, fell on some action of the Chinese cook which aroused her violent disapproval. She turned on him with a torrent of abuse. The Chink was not backward to defend himself, and a very lively quarrel ensued.
  • 12

    board-gameschessgamesOf a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.

  • 13

    ball-gamescricketgamesOn that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.

  • 14

    ball-gamescricketgamesFurther behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.

  • 15

    obsoleteUnwilling; averse; reluctant.

    • For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves.
  • 16

    obsoleteAlready past or gone; bygone.

    • The soul forgets her schemes of Hope and Pride, / and flies unconscious o'er each backward year.

backwardadv/ˈbæk.wə(ɹ)d/

  • 1

    At, near or towards the rear of something.

    • The passenger turned around and walked backward, towards the tail of the aircraft.
  • 2

    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.
  • 3

    In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.

    • In reverse gear the wheel turns backward.
  • 4

    Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.

    • This project seems to be going backward.
    • The work went backward.
  • 5

    In a reversed orientation; back to front.

    • He had his cap on backward.
  • 6

    In a reversed order or sequence.

    • A palindrome reads the same backward as forward.
  • 7

    Toward or into the past.

    • As we begin the new millennium, it behoves us to look backward as well as forward.
  • 8

    obsoleteIn the past.

另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    By way of reflection; reflexively.

    • the Mind can backward caſt Upon herself, her understanding Light
    • It was still possible — perhaps it might be inevitable — for him to accept frankly the altered conditions, and avow Baldassarre's existence; but hardly without casting an unpleasant light backward on his original reticence[…]

backwardnoun/ˈbæk.wə(ɹ)d/

  • 1

    The state behind or past.

    • In the dark backward and abysm of time.

backwardverb/ˈbæk.wə(ɹ)d/

  • 1

    datedTo keep back, to delay, to retard.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。