retrograde

• adj. 倒退的；退化的；次序颠倒的
• vi. 逆行；倒退；退步
• vt. 使倒退
• adv. 倒退地；向后地

retro-,向后，往回，-grad,走，词源同 grade,aggressive.引申词义倒退，退化。

retrograde

retrograde: see gradual

retrograde (adj.)

late 14c., originally of the apparent motions of planets, from Latin retrogradus "going back, going backward," from retrogradi "move backward," from retro- "backward" (see retro-) + gradi "to go, step" (see grade (n.)). General sense of "tending to revert" is recorded from 1530s.

1. The closure of the factory is a retrograde step .

工厂的关闭是一大退步。

来自《权威词典》

2. The Prime Minister described transferring education to central government funding as "a retrograde step".

首相称将教育投入转由中央政府拨款是“一种倒退”。

来自柯林斯例句

3. Infection can spread retrograde down a drain from the exterior.

感染能从外界经引流管逆行播散.

来自辞典例句

4. The motion of the particle is retrograde.

质点运动是衰减的.

来自辞典例句

5. This retrograde conduction does not always take place.

逆向传导不经常进行.

来自辞典例句