单词 | to look backwards |
释义 | > as lemmasto look backwards to look backwards 1. intransitive= to look backward 1 at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look back to look againwardc1225 to look backwardc1405 to look backwardsc1429 to look again?c1430 to look back1533 c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 3397 Loths wif, loking bakwards, was turnyd til a stone salyne. 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. iv. 161 You are lyke to those that row in a boate, which although they looke backewardes, yet they thruste an other way. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 147 They..when past the marke, with an other ready Arrow, can strike the rest looking backwards. 1736 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Spiders 60 It had..two other [eyes] about the middle of the top of its back or head, which look backwards and side-wards. 1865 Temple Bar Sept. 242 Before plunging into the beech-wood I look backwards, and see royal Windsor stately in the sunlight. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1298 When we rotate our head, looking backwards, to one side, we are moving the atlas on the second neck vertebra or axis. 1987 M. Collins Angel ii. 21 He looked backwards. Regal, and a man from Dunfermline, standing with right hands resting on thick sticks taken from the gliricida trees. 2014 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 9 Apr. [The boy] was running backwards, or running forwards and looking backwards as the bus drove around the corner. 2. intransitive= to look backward 2 at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > look back, retrospect [verb (intransitive)] to look backward?c1450 to look back1529 to look backwards1598 recoila1616 retrospect1664 run1692 revert1820 reverie1832 to think back (on or to)1901 to job backwards1907 1598 F. Meres tr. Luis de Granada Spirituall & Heauenlie Exercises vi. 151 Looking backwardes, it [sc. the soul] shall see all her life time, as the tract and step of one pace. 1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. ii. 140 This Law..looks backwards to Acts past. 1744 W. Havard Regulus iii. iii. 35 Look backwards to Dentatus' great Example. 1828 T. Arnold in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1844) I. ii. 88 It boots not to look backwards. 1858 E. J. Worboise Kingsdown Lodge xxxii. 429 She looked backwards, and saw herself a happy child, a happy girl, and a happy woman. 1910 J. Matthews Hist. Newport i. 25 To think anciently, one must obliterate the word [sc. Newport] from the mind, and look backwards into the far-off past. 1976 Early Music 4 274 Cavalli's final work, the Requiem, looks backwards also, but its use of the stile antico is not quite so remote as that in the psalms. 2004 Daily Tel. 1 Mar. 17/1 Milan Fashion Week logged on to the same vibe: moving fashion forward by looking backwards was the name of the game. < as lemmas |
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