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单词 backward-looking
释义
backward-lookingˌbackward-ˈlooking adjective Examples
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  • But this is backward-looking stuff from another era.
  • Even if Maastricht is ratified intact, the past four months have made it seem backward-looking, or even irrelevant.
  • In 1890 all foreign ministries had been, to varying extents, tradition-bound and backward-looking.
  • Some of its politicians were backward-looking in that their major objectives were to remedy inter-war problems.
  • The later Victorian undertakers were arguably the most backward-looking tradesmen of their day.
  • The titles of many of the talks seem curiously backward-looking, particularly compared with the straight forward approach of the Berlin programme.
  • The whole scene represented by these extensive remains is determinedly backward-looking and insular.
  • This gives intentional explanations a forward-looking quality which contrasts with the backward-looking quality of empirical explanations.
using the methods and ideas of the past rather than modern ones – used to show disapproval OPP  forward-looking:  Darwin transformed a backward-looking organisation into a respected art school.
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