The diver flipped over backward into the water.

跳水运动员向后翻转跳入水中。

We need to accelerate the pace of change in our backward country.

我们需要在我们这个落后的国家加快变革的步伐。。

He unlocked the door of apartment two and disappeared inside after a backward glance at Larry.

他打开2号公寓的门锁，向后瞥了拉里一眼之后走进去就不见了。

She was walking backward on the walkway.

她正在人行道上向后走。

The backward place has changed into an industrial centre.

那落后的地方变成了工业中心。

The backward place has changed into an industrial center.

这个落后的地方变成了工业中心。

The car shot backward because that man had left it in reverse.

那车忽然向后退，因为那男人之前给车挂了倒车档。

People in some backward regions still live a life without electricity.

一些落后地区的人们仍然过着没有电的生活。

No human race anywhere on earth is so backward that it has no language of its own at all.

地球上任何地方都没有这样的人类种族，他们如此落后以至于完全没有自己的语言。

In spite of Mrs. Medlock's warning, Mr. Roach only just escaped being sufficiently undignified to jump backward.

尽管梅德洛克太太警告了他，罗奇先生还是有些失礼地向后跳了。

If you could move at the speed of light, your time would stand still, if you could move faster than light, your time would move backward.

如果你能以光速运动，你的时间就会静止不动；如果你能以快于光速的速度运动，你的时间就会倒退。

It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backward through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.

小天狼星摔倒好像用了很长时间：当他向后摔倒，通过了拱门上粗糙的帘子时，他的身体蜷成了一个优美的拱形。

I was surprised by the lack of transmission creep and the fact that the car will roll backward if you take your foot off the brake on an incline.

我对怠速过低感到惊讶， 并且在斜坡上，如果你的脚离开刹车，汽车甚至还会向后遛车。

Mars, in contrast, has a wildly oscillating tilt and chaotic seasonality, while Venus, rotating slowly backward, has virtually no seasonality at all.

相比之下，火星有着剧烈的倾斜和混乱的季节性，而金星则缓慢地向后旋转，几乎没有实质上的任何季节性。

He took two steps backward.

他往后退了两步。

He walked away without a backward glance.

他头也不回地扬长而去。

She strode past him without a backward glance.

她大步从他身边走过，都没有回头瞧他一眼。

He works backward, building a house from the top downward.

他倒着干活，从上往下盖房子。

The current U.S. farm bill, however, is a big step backward.

然而，目前的美国农业法却倒退了一大步。

She felt that going back to live in her home town would be a backward step.

她觉得回到家乡生活就是没出息。

She was not backward this time.

这一次她没有退缩。

In pre-Classical Greece, for instance, people "corrected" official calendars by shifting dates forward or backward to reflect the change of season.

例如，在前古典时期的希腊，人们通过前后移动日期来“修正”官方日历，以反映季节的变化。

On the first day of school, Socrates told his students, "Today, we'll only learn one thing. That is to swing your arm forward and backward."

在开学的第一天，苏格拉底告诉他的学生：“今天，我们只学一件事情。那就是前后摆动你的手臂。”

Shall we sway backward and forward, Mary, as if we were dervishes?

玛丽，我们要不要前后晃来晃去，就好像我们是托钵僧似的？

Remember this engine is running backward, and we're pumping heat up.

记住这个热机是反向运行的，我们把热量向上传输。

What if that same process could be run in reverse, like a movie run backward?

如果相同的过程逆向运行会怎样，像一部倒放的电影？

You see how this epicycle theory could account for the seemingly backward motion of the planet.

你可以看到这个本轮理论是如何解释行星看起来像在做反向运动的。

They glanced backward over their shoulders from time to time, apprehensively, as if they feared they might be followed.

他们时不时不安地回头望望，好像怕有人跟踪似的。

During a game, while sliding into third base, my cleat caught and pulled my foot to the right and backward as my body fell forward.

一次比赛，在进第三垒时，我的防滑钉被卡住了，身体朝前栽倒，脚腕却扭向右后方。

Churchill got some surprised stares in 1941 when, evidently unaware of the vulgar usage, he gave the palm-backward "V" to British troops.

1941年，丘吉尔掌对英国军队做了个心向内的“V”形手势，当时有人惊讶地盯着他，显然他不知道这个手势的粗俗用法。