| 释义 |
ˈretroject, v.
[f. retro- + -ject, after project vb.]
trans. To cast or throw back.
1866Pall Mall G. 18 May 1 The ridiculous position into which it projected, or, rather, retrojected, an aspiring and ambitious candidate. 1881Sully Illusions 10 Whether a man projects some figment of his imagination into the external world,..or whether..he retrojects it into the dim region of the past.
So retroˈjection, the action of putting back to an earlier date.
1900Expositor Jan. 14 The Priests' Code contains one of the most conspicuous of these retrojections. |