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

• 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。
• 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。
• Concerns about backsliding from standards on transparency, procurement and anti-corruption are justified but the way to address them is to join the institution and work from within; it is nonsense to argue that carping from outside will be more effective.
  对透明度、采购和反腐标准倒退的担忧是合理的，但解决这些问题的方法是加入该机构，从内部实现变革；所谓在外面挑毛病会更加有效的说法纯属无稽之谈。
• Militant mendicancy over the nuclear issue demanding to be paid for every tiny step towards a distant disarmament, then backsliding and trying the same trick again will no longer wash.
  平壤在核问题上进行的“强行乞讨”先要求国际社会为该国向遥远的去核迈出的每一小步提供经援，然后退回到原有立场并故伎重施不会再有效果。
• 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。
• You are backsliding into the flames of hell.
  你现在正在倒退到地狱的火焰中。
• Yet despite this hard-won progress, Beijing is now in danger of backsliding.
  然而，在取得这番来之不易的进步之后，中国的银行业改革现在面临着倒退的危险。
• And it has also exasperated the EU by backsliding on promised improvements to the judiciary and legal system.
  同时，他也因在推进司法及法律体制改革上出尔反尔而惹恼了欧盟。
• There is only a path forward a hard and difficult path, filled with troubles and backsliding and detours but a path forward nonetheless.
  只有前进的道路一条费力的艰难的道路，充满困难和挫折的迂回曲折的道路但终究是一条前进的道路。
• It is fair to say that Egypt's dogged support for regional peacemaking has been crucial to sustaining a modicum of civility in the Middle East, despite backsliding by nearly everyone else.
  公平地说，尽管各方的态度几乎都在倒退，但没有撕破脸皮而大打出手与埃及对地区和平的不懈努力是分不开的。