| 单词 | backwards |
| 释义 | backwards (bækwəʳdz ) In American English, backward is usually used as an adverb instead of backwards. Backward is also sometimes used in this way in formal British English. 1. adverb [ADVERB after verb] B1+ If you move or look backwards, you move or look in the direction that your back is facing. The diver flipped over backwards into the water. He took two steps backward. Bess glanced backwards. Keeping your back straight, swing one leg backwards. Synonyms: towards the rear, behind you, in reverse, rearwards Backwards is also an adjective. Without so much as a backwards glance, he steered her towards the car. 2. adverb [ADVERB after verb] If you do something backwards, you do it in the opposite way to the usual way. He works backwards, building a house from the top downwards. Synonyms: in reverse order, back to front, in the opposite way from usual 3. adverb [ADVERB after verb, noun ADVERB] You use backwards to indicate that something changes or develops in a way that is not an improvement, but is a return to old ideas or methods. Greater government intervention in businesses would represent a step backwards. ...the blaming that keeps us looking backward. 4. See also backward 5. backwards and forwards phrase B2 If someone or something moves backwards and forwards, they move repeatedly first in one direction and then in the opposite direction. Draw the floss backwards and forwards between the teeth. ...people travelling backwards and forwards to and from London. 6. to know something backwards phrase [VERB inflects] In British English, if you say that someone knows something backwards, you are emphasizing that they know it very well. In American English, you say that someone knows something backward and forward. [emphasis] I asked about one or two things that interest me and she really did know it all backwards. 7. to bend over backwards phrase If you say that someone is bending over backwards to be helpful or kind, you are emphasizing that they are trying very hard to be helpful or kind. [emphasis] People are bending over backwards to please customers. Synonyms: try, endeavour, try hard, toil Idioms: know something backwards [mainly British] or know something backwards and forwards to know something very well I thoroughly enjoy lecturing and I know my subject backwards. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers bend over backwards to try very hard to do something and to help or please someone, even if it causes you trouble We are bending over backwards to ensure that the safeguards are kept in place. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: count backwards So if you find yourself overthinking and worrying about something, stop yourself and count backwards from 100 in threes. The Sun It then started to count backwards before engineers arrived to try to fix it. Times, Sunday Times And work out some coping skills for the urges: slow down, sit still for a moment and count backwards from ten. Times, Sunday Times They were encouraged to try to walk faster, stand on one leg or count backwards from 100 while doing various exercises. Times, Sunday Times And if that doesn't work, wrap it round your head, count backwards from a thousand and get back to me. The Sun Camper vans are exciting anyway, and this one even more so, as the passenger seat swivels all the way round to face backwards. Times, Sunday Times The front two passenger seats face backwards to create a lounge-type atmosphere, while the middle row can seat up to three or can be converted into a small table. The Sun For the uninitiated, sociable buggies are those that face backwards rather than ones that enjoy canapés and a convivial chat. Times, Sunday Times They want societies to turn inwards, to face backwards. Times, Sunday Times Koalas are unable to clean out their pouches since they face backwards. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We both fall backwards, me on top of him. Times, Sunday Times Helped into the back of a waiting car, she managed to miss the seat and fall backwards into the well, giggling helplessly. The Sun Usually, when a club are perceived to be teetering on the brink, the alternatives are to fall backwards into the abyss or forwards into a scrambling safety. Times, Sunday Times There's a game that's often used in team-building meetings: you allow yourself to fall backwards, relying on a colleague to catch you before you crash to the floor. Times, Sunday Times If you have to fall backwards into somebody's arms to show you trust them... well, if you don't trust each other, you shouldn't come into the f****** rehearsal room. Times, Sunday Times The electricity and phone lines are regularly brought down; seagulls fly backwards, unable to outflap the wind. Times, Sunday Times Swooping and gliding are all well and good, but they can also hover, and are the only birds that can fly backwards. Times, Sunday Times She knew how to fly backwards without breaking her neck, she bounced up in seconds, got on with the show and then took her mortified dancers out for dinner. Times, Sunday Times The hummingbirds, the only birds that can fly backwards, are also expected to grab attention. Times, Sunday Times They are the only birds that can fly backwards. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The rules are the same, but if your pebble lands on a red spot you must hop/jump backwards for the remainder of your turn. Times, Sunday Times With the forward, as you can imagine, you throw yourself forward off the board and with the backward you jump backwards off it. The Sun End by snapping like a crocodile, then hold your nose and jump backwards. Times, Sunday Times I once knew a guy who could jump backwards onto a filing cabinet from a standing start. Times, Sunday Times The arrangement necessarily results in an almost total lack of a sense of chronology, as letters jump backwards and forwards between decades. The Times Literary Supplement This defeat felt like a massive leap backwards. Times, Sunday Times It may be considered just a minor concession by some, but it would be one giant leap backwards for womankind. The Sun Instead, they have made the great leap backwards. Times, Sunday Times His method was to sprint diagonally towards the bar, then curve and leap backwards over the bar. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The story builds, leaping backwards and forward through time, to a single moment of utter horror and despair revealed at its end. Times, Sunday Times It seems that if you don't move forward with technology you end up moving backwards. The Times Literary Supplement (2010) The kitchen maid began to move backwards, one cautious step at a time. A Time of War (1993) Many in the country, affronted by the tawdry detail, will feel football has moved backwards. Times, Sunday Times (2016) One can impose a more structured ending by moving backwards a pace or two and waiting until relatives seem to be ready to leave. Growing Through Loss and Grief (1994) Here large scales on the underside of the body, known as scutes are used to push backwards and downwards. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At high latitudes, the magnetic field lines are push backwards and over the polar regions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The action (tyres pushing backwards) gives an equal and opposite reaction (car going forward). Times, Sunday Times Large trout can be grasped gently and forceps can be used to grip the bend and push backwards, away from the direction the hook currently points. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Or, if his team have been pushed backwards in the scrum, he must attempt to stem the tide of advancing opponents. Times, Sunday Times Because of the heat from the candles, they rock backwards and forwards to avoid falling asleep. Times, Sunday Times We were rocking backwards and forwards, and suddenly he went green. The Sun Rocking backwards and forwards, entering into stream-of-consciousness lyrical moments, he lost himself to a higher plane. Times, Sunday Times Other players claim to have been adversely affected by ballboys rocking backwards and forwards on their plastic stools in 'a really irritating way'. Times, Sunday Times And at this point, you are either hooked or rocking backwards and forwards, crying with laughter. Times, Sunday Times The handbrake wouldn't work and the car began to roll backwards. Times,Sunday Times Nobody was hurt - the driver and his assistant got out when the train started to roll backwards. Times,Sunday Times It will roll backwards down the tower, and will be stopped by brakes on the launch track. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The park mechanic managed to unlock the train, allowing the train to roll backwards and safely lower the riders back to the station. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The ride car can now roll backwards with the magnetic fins deployed and the lift motor in reverse. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His height makes it almost impossible for a defender running backwards to outjump him. Times, Sunday Times (2011) You should aim to be able to run backwards for one mile within a few months. The Sun (2012) But then he went back into English again and one realised that a technical hitch had caused a recording to run backwards. Times, Sunday Times (2016) They spent their time running backwards and forwards around the vehicles and buildings carrying wounded victims to shelter. Broken Lives (1993) The three main lightweight seats can slide backwards and forwards to provide more passenger legroom or luggage space. The Sun We all need to keep questioning, though, or we will slide backwards. Times, Sunday Times The rear seat can slide backwards, which liberates rear legroom, although it also reduces the boot space. Times, Sunday Times Instead, when you press a button they slide backwards on runners. Times, Sunday Times Some commentators have argued in recent weeks that, whatever happens in the coming few years, football will eventually slide backwards. Times, Sunday Times When trains started to slip backwards they created a series of horseshoe-shaped tunnels, ascending at a more gradual gradient. Times, Sunday Times So many people work hard merely to stay still while even more slip backwards. Times, Sunday Times The train proceeded 600 yards into the tunnel but then began to slip backwards, as shown by skid marks observed afterwards on the rails. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the trawl continues along the seabed, fish begin to tire and slip backwards into the net. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Ladders can also slip backwards owing to faulty base pads which usually fit into the ladder stiles. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I saw his flash of fear, the two arms pushed out protectively, the silly stagger backwards, the two wounds torn in the turf by his sliding heels. Times, Sunday Times Told it could mean amputating the arm, she staggered backwards and had to be supported by her brother. Times, Sunday Times He was so shocked he staggered backwards and hit his head on a fridge. Times, Sunday Times She lost her footing and stumbled backwards, falling five feet down a bank and into a pool near the top of the waterfall. Times,Sunday Times She stumbled backwards and fell on to the track. Times, Sunday Times He leads her away from the table, but as she stumbles backwards, she rips off his suit to reveal his prison uniform. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In some specimens the body segments tilt backwards, making roughly chevron patterns; while in others they are more or less straight. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During swallowing the epiglottis tilts backwards to prevent food from going down the larynx. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An acoustical canopy (weighing 38 tonnes) can be raised and lowered and tilted backwards to suit the changing musical needs of each performance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A male colleague got 585 for toppling backwards on a faulty chair while another was handed 14,000 after hurting his back lifting boxes. The Sun (2017) He was so excited that he toppled backwards bottom first into the bin. Times, Sunday Times (2006) The German study found that learners had a slight tendency to topple backwards if they stopped too quickly. Times, Sunday Times (2006) He sent me tumbling backwards into the water. The Sun Seconds later he'd tumbled backwards about 9ft (3m) and landed on his head. Times, Sunday Times Even as you reach the top in sport, you start tumbling backwards. Times, Sunday Times I didn't pay attention either and tangled the tape, then tumbled backwards over an occasional table that promptly snapped in two. Times, Sunday Times Dazed and utterly confused, he tumbles backwards, hits the low banister and falls down the stairwell. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They trot and pirouette, walk backwards and roll on the floor. Times, Sunday Times I spent the first 10 minutes failing to do anything except make my horse walk backwards. Times, Sunday Times So, just as you can walk backwards and forwards in your living room, so you have some freedom to control your movements in time. Times, Sunday Times The new generation of micro-processor or 'bionic' legs, which can cost tens of thousands of pounds, improve the ability to climb stairs, kneel and walk backwards. Times, Sunday Times He would walk backwards all the way home from school to see if it could be done. Times, Sunday Times But they are now having to 'work backwards'. The Sun He would make his prediction, visualise it and work backwards from that point in his preparation. The Sun You have to think about the outcomes you want to achieve and work backwards. The Sun The profession should start with the users of accounts and work backwards from there, not box-tick its own arcane rules. Times, Sunday Times As a rule, you should work backwards generation by generation, rather than trying to trace forwards from a supposed celebrity ancestor. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 向后, 相反地 Japanese: 後方に, 反対に |
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