| 释义 |
back-and-forth, n.
[see back adv. 14.]
An exchange (of words, views, etc.); reciprocity, give-and-take.
1941W. A. Percy Lanterns on Levee xxii. 293 Then the man asked if he couldn't 'range fur a conference en they had a lot of back-and-forth. 1969D. Acheson Present at Creation (1970) xxi. 192 He was not good in the fast back-and-forth of a press conference. 1979Dædalus Summer 14 In the back-and-forth of competing charges and counter-charges..there certainly is a fund of hypocrisy. 1980Guardian Weekly 13 Jan. 16/1 We have resisted using trade, agricultural sales,..sports and cultural back-and-forth. |