backwardness

noun

1. 落后状况
   the state of having made less progress than normal

In American English, backward is usually used as an adverb instead of backwards.Backward is also sometimes used in this way in formal British English. See backwards for these uses.
美国英语通常将backward用作副词，而不用backwards。正式的英国英语中有时也有这种用法。此类用法参见backwards。

1. ADJ 向后的，往后的（一些人亦使用backwards)
   A backward movement or look is in the direction that your back is facing. Some people use backwards for this meaning.
   1. He unlocked the door of apartment two and disappeared inside after a backward glance at Larry...
      他打开2号公寓的门，回头瞥了拉里一眼，然后就进了房间。
   2. He did a backward flip.
      他做了一个后空翻。
2. ADJ 倒退的；不进反退的
   If someone takes a backward step, they do something that does not change or improve their situation, but causes them to go back a stage.
   1. At a certain age, it's not viable for men to take a backward step into unskilled work...
      到了一定的年龄，就不可能再退回去干不需要技能的工作。
   2. Many dentists will no longer treat National Health Service patients, which is a big backward step in this country.
      许多牙医不再为依靠国民保健制度的病人看病，这是该国的一大倒退。
3. ADJ-GRADED 落后的
   A backward country or society does not have modern industries and machines.
   1. We need to accelerate the pace of change in our backward country.
      我们应当为落后的祖国加快变革的脚步。
4. ADJ-GRADED 迟钝的；学习吃力的
   A backward child has difficulty in learning.
   1. ...research into teaching techniques to help backward children...
      关于帮助落后孩子的教学方法研究
   2. I was slow to walk and talk and my parents thought I was backward.
      我学走路和说话都很慢，所以我父母以为我很迟钝。

1. We are struggling with backwardness.
   我们正在和落后现象作斗争。
2. These countries continue to enjoy what the economist Alexander Gerschenkron called "advantages of backwardness".
   这些国家继续享有经济学家亚历山大？格申克龙（alexandergerschenkron）所称的“后发优势”。
3. China is still a developing country with a big population, weak economic foundation, uneven development, relative backwardness in science and technology, and far from complete economic and political institutions. These are our basic national conditions.
   中国仍然是一个发展中国家，人口多、底子薄、发展不平衡，科学技术相对落后，经济体制和政治体制还不完善，是我们的基本国情。
4. The backwardness of education in this area is, in some degree, due to lack of qualified teachers.
   这个地区教育的落后在某种程度上归咎於师资缺乏。
5. There was similar economic and cultural backwardness.
   经济和文化落后，这是近似的。
6. The South wants to shake off its poverty and backwardness, and the North needs a developed South.
   南方要改变贫困和落后，北方也需要南方发展。
7. We must thoroughly overcome our backwardness.
   必须根本改变我们这里的落后面貌。
8. We need to develop the country and shake off backwardness.
   我们面临发展和摆脱落后的任务。
9. One example is the tendency to regard the tudung as a symbol of repression and backwardness by non-muslims.
   例如，非回教徒倾向于把披头巾看成是被压迫和落后的象征。
10. She is now experiencing earth-shaking changes in a shift from Medieval extreme backwardness to modernization.
    她正经历着从极端落后的中世纪状况逐步走向现代化的天翻地覆的变化。
11. The Central Committee points out that this is a great revolution in which China's economic and technological backwardness will be overcome and the dictatorship of the proletariat further consolidated.
    中央指出：这是一场根本改变我国经济和技术落后面貌，进一步巩固无产阶级专政的伟大革命。
12. For them, bicycles were an unwelcome reminder of past poverty and backwardness.
    对他们来说，自行车令人生厌，让他们回忆起过去的贫穷和落后。
13. The mold materials and mold-related technological backwardness;
    模具材料及模具相关技术落后；
14. We must recognize our backwardness, because only such recognition offers hope.
    要承认落后，承认落后就有希望了。
15. In the course of the20th century, we Asian people waged unyielding struggles to win national independence and liberation, get rid of poverty and backwardness and bring about development and prosperity, scoring remarkable achievements step.
    在二十世纪的百的历程中，亚洲人民为争取国家和民族解放，为摆脱贫穷落后，实现发展繁荣，进行了不屈不挠的斗争，取得了举世瞩目的成就。
16. Eastern exploitation of the advantages of backwardness, a recurring theme, suggests another reversal in the 21st century.
    东方对后发优势这是一个反复出现的主题的利用，意味着21世纪将再次出现逆转。
17. China, on the other hand, was just emerging from backwardness.
    而另一方面，中国刚刚从落后中崛起。
18. Japanese Agriculture based on its poverty, backwardness and small-scale peasant economy has been rapidly developing in a short period of time.
    日本农业在贫穷落后的小农经济基础上短时间内，走出了一条快速的农业发展道路。
19. One feature of the history of old Russia was the continual defeats she suffered because of her backwardness.
    旧俄罗斯历史的一个特点就是它的落后使它不断吃败仗。
20. If you think of backwardness, you fell behind.
    如果你想到落后，你就落后了。
21. To develop its economy and shake off poverty and backwardness, China must open to the outside world.
    中国要谋求发展，摆脱贫穷和落后，就必须开放。
22. This case exposes the backwardness of copyright legislation for the folklore protection in China.
    此案暴露了我国民间文学私权保护制度的立法滞后性。
23. In spite of its backwardness, it's a place of peace and quiet.
    它虽然落后了点，但是个宁静而平和的地方。
24. In recent years, Cambodia has already realized that foreign capital is important for economy development of backwardness state, formulated and consummated foreign investments laws.
    近年来，柬埔寨已经意识到引进外资对落后国家经济发展的重要性，制定和完善了一批外国投资法律。
25. Seclusion and exclusion can only lead to stagnation and backwardness.
    封闭、排他只会导致僵化和落后。
26. The basic cause of Russian backwardness lies in its peasants.
    俄国落后的根本原因就是农民因素。
27. Study the Advantage of Backwardness in the North Jiangsu Province and Find Ways to Carry It into Effect;
    分析了西部地区信息资源建设的后发优势和后发劣势，探讨了加速西部信息资源建设的途径。
28. This general line of the starting point is to change as soon as possible the economic and cultural backwardness of our country, but the neglect of the objective laws of economic development.
    这条总路线的出发点是要尽快地改变我国经济文化落后的状况，但是忽视了经济发展的客观规律。
29. Humiliating situation for this reason, the western capitalist powers on the one hand, China's aggression, on the other hand, the backwardness of China's social system.
    造成这种屈辱局面的原因，一方面是西方资本主义列强对中国的侵略，另一方面是中国社会制度的落后。
30. At that time, I had a deep sense of the poverty, backwardness and feebleness of old China.
    对旧中国的贫困落后和国势衰败有着深刻感受。

noun

1. lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

   Synonym:    retardationmental retardationslownesssubnormality