英语词汇“one step forward and two steps back”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

h. (to take) one step forward and two steps back and variants [in later use, partly after Russian šag vperëd, dva šaga nazad (Lenin, title of pamphlet (1904))] : (to be in) a situation in which any progress made is counterbalanced by much greater setbacks.

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1838 J. F. Cooper Homeward Bound I. x. 154 When a man has fully made up his mind to retreat, he blusters the most; and one step forward often promises two backward.

1919 A. Rhys Williams et al. Lenin 37 His [sc. Lenin's] own original works may be numbered by the score. The following are important:..‘One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: The Crisis in Our Party’.

1950 Amer. Lit. 21 466 But it is one step forwards and two steps backwards, for Tobias recognizes in his alloy of feelings and attitudes a contempt for himself which undermines his sense of social security.

1965 Times 20 Mar. 10/6 If in terms of approaching Hanoi it has been a case of one step forward and two steps back, there is little doubting..the American determination to press on with a ‘graduated programme’.

1997 Express 19 Feb. (Sport section) 5/2 But things have gone a bit wonky. We seem to take one step forward and two back.

单词	one step forward and two steps back
释义	> as lemmas (to take) one step forward and two steps back h. (to take) one step forward and two steps back and variants [in later use, partly after Russian šag vperëd, dva šaga nazad (Lenin, title of pamphlet (1904))] : (to be in) a situation in which any progress made is counterbalanced by much greater setbacks. ΚΠ 1838 J. F. Cooper Homeward Bound I. x. 154 When a man has fully made up his mind to retreat, he blusters the most; and one step forward often promises two backward. 1919 A. Rhys Williams et al. Lenin 37 His [sc. Lenin's] own original works may be numbered by the score. The following are important:..‘One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: The Crisis in Our Party’. 1950 Amer. Lit. 21 466 But it is one step forwards and two steps backwards, for Tobias recognizes in his alloy of feelings and attitudes a contempt for himself which undermines his sense of social security. 1965 Times 20 Mar. 10/6 If in terms of approaching Hanoi it has been a case of one step forward and two steps back, there is little doubting..the American determination to press on with a ‘graduated programme’. 1997 Express 19 Feb. (Sport section) 5/2 But things have gone a bit wonky. We seem to take one step forward and two back. extracted from oneadj.n.pron. < as lemmas
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