backsliding

英 [ˈbækslaɪdɪŋ]

美 [ˈbækslaɪdɪŋ]

n.  倒退; 故态复萌
v.  退步；倒退
backslide的现在分词

复数：backslidings　现在分词：backsliding　

COCA.35360

牛津词典

noun

• 倒退；故态复萌
  the situation when sb fails to do sth that they agreed to do and returns to their former bad behaviour

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 变卦；倒退；故态复萌
  If you accuse someone ofbacksliding, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or agreed to do, or have started again doing something undesirable that they had previously stopped doing.
  1. ...the government's backsliding on free market reforms...
     政府在自由市场改革上的退缩
  2. This may help to maintain the gains you've made and to prevent backsliding.
     这或许有助于保持你所取得的进展，防止倒退。

英英释义

noun

• a failure to maintain a higher state
  Synonym:lapselapsingrelapserelapsingreversionreverting

双语例句

• Such backsliding has been seen before.
  以前我们曾看到过这种倒退。
• The paper quoted an education ministry official as saying the main reason for the backsliding was that many young rural poor were dropping out of school in order to find work in the cities.
  该报告引用了教育部一位官员的说法，认为识字率水平下滑的主要原因是年轻的偏远地区青年在城市求生而辍学。
• Spiritual weakness or backsliding can easily prevent our walking with and for Christ.
  同样地，灵命软弱或倒退的基督徒，也不能遵基督而行。
• She had, despite the occasional backsliding in training, successfully competed in the championships.
  虽然在训练上偶尔有些退步，她还是在锦标赛上获得了胜利。
• This may help to maintain the gains you've made and to prevent backsliding.
  这或许有助于保持你所取得的进展，防止倒退。
• Gao said another reason for the backsliding was a lack of adequate funding, and the fact that earlier successes in fighting illiteracy lead some local governments to abandon their literacy programs.
  高学贵还提出了另外一个识字率倒退的原因，即缺乏足够的资金，并且在消除文盲上早期的成功导致部分地方政府取消了识字计划。
• Five prominent members of the Group of 20 leading economies, including the US and UK, sent a coded rebuke to China yesterday against backsliding on economic agreements.
  20国集团（G20）的五大成员国（包括美国和英国），昨日对中国提出含蓄批评，指责中国在经济协定上倒退。该集团由全球主要经济体组成。
• Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.
  你们这背道的儿女阿，回来吧。我要医治你们背道的病。
• Of course, this backsliding of a nation could not have happened if the church had not backslidden or fallen into a lukewarm state.
  当然，若教会没有退后或不冷不热，国家的属灵退后是不会发生的。
• That is good news insofar as it means there is no backsliding ( yet) on the first significant progress made in the management of the eurozone crisis for some time.
  目前看来这是一个好消息，因其意味着欧元区危机治理的首个重大进展在一段时间内未出现倒退。