retrograde
英 [ˈret.rə.ɡreɪd]
美 [ˈret.rə.ɡreɪd]
- 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
retrograde 倒退,退化retro-,向后,往回,-grad,走,词源同 grade,aggressive.引申词义倒退,退化。
- retrograde
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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。
- 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”。
- 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.
- 4. The motion of the particle is retrograde.
- 质点运动是衰减的.
- 5. This retrograde conduction does not always take place.
- 逆向传导不经常进行.