BACKWARD

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Traducere în limba română

backward I. adverb (mai ales amer.)

1. îndărăt, înapoi, în spate.

2. invers, în direcţie opusă; de-a-ndoaselea.

3. de-a-ndăratelea.

4. pe spate.

5. spre mai rău.

backward II. adjectiv

1. (despre circulaţie) invers.

2. îndreptat înapoi.

3. înapoiat, întârziat, retrograd; leneş;

backward children copii înapoiaţi.

4. întârziat.

5. (rar) trecut.

6. tărăgănitor.

7. fără tragere de inimă.

8. sfios, timid, ruşinos.

◊ to be backward in one’s duty a-şi neglija îndatoririle.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The man went over backward and fell in a crumpled heap.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

‘Very well,’ said he, ‘you shall know all about the machine.’ He took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key in the lock.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It may be that on their backward road they have come this way.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beauty Smith's remaining leg left the ground, and his whole body seemed to lift into the air as he turned over backward and struck the snow.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

I was awkward enough in their games, and backward enough in their studies; but custom would improve me in the first respect, I hoped, and hard work in the second.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Hal was hurled backward, as though struck by a falling tree.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

They want her (Mr. and Mrs. Dixon) excessively to come over with Colonel and Mrs. Campbell; quite depend upon it; nothing can be more kind or pressing than their joint invitation, Jane says, as you will hear presently; Mr. Dixon does not seem in the least backward in any attention.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Nor was it under many, many minutes that she could comprehend what she heard; though not in general backward to credit what was for the advantage of her family, or that came in the shape of a lover to any of them.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

The Lion, although he was certainly afraid, turned to face the Kalidahs, and then he gave so loud and terrible a roar that Dorothy screamed and the Scarecrow fell over backward, while even the fierce beasts stopped short and looked at him in surprise.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

The asteroid's loops around Earth drift a little ahead or behind from year to year, but when they drift too far forward or backward, Earth's gravity is just strong enough to reverse the drift and hold onto the asteroid so that it never wanders farther away than about 100 times the distance of the moon.

(Small Asteroid Is Earth's Constant Companion, NASA)

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