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

• The harder it pushes for fair trade with poorer countries, either bilaterally or through the WTO, the worse is the danger of backsliding all round.
  它越是卖力地与比较穷的国家推进自由贸易，不管是以双边还是通过世贸组织的方式，全面倒退的危险就越严重。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Critics accused the government of backsliding on the issue of welfare.
  批评者指责政府又在福利问题上犯错误。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Might the stronger Republican contingent lessen the risk of protectionist backsliding and even improve prospects for concluding the Doha round?
  更强硬的共和党人会降低保护主义抬头的风险，甚至增加完成多哈回合谈判的可能性吗？