| 单词 | backward and forward |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbackward and forward b. backward and forward: to and fro; also figurative of vacillation, uncertain speech, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > vacillation [phrase] backward and forward1581 to go (also look) nine ways (at once, at thrice)a1617 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > to and fro [phrase] hither and thitherc725 downa1200 to and fro1340 to and again1612 back and forward1613 sourse deorse1616 backward and forwarda1711 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [phrase] > back and forth to and fro1340 to and again1612 back and forward1613 backward and forwarda1711 1581 W. Fulke in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iii. sig. Y iij b Euen nowe, you denied..and now you graunt it: you go backward and foreward. 1680 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 57 Goeing backward and forward in his accusation. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 274 The Serpent wav'd his Carcase..Backward and forward. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 569 The boy went backward and forward in his story. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §237 Carried backward and forward in the yawls every tide. 1833 T. B. Macaulay War Succession in Spain in Ess. (1848) II. 93 Imputations..utterly unfounded..were hurled backward and forward by the political disputants. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 2 This regular backward-and-forward movement of the great mass of water. < as lemmas |
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