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落后
Backward
Revolutions go not backward.
革命不会倒退。
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
如果我看到一个结局，我可以倒着做。
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
我走得很慢，但我从不后退。
I start with the joke line and write backward.
我从笑话开始，倒着写。
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
反动分子是倒着走的梦游者。
Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
避免战争，因为战争总是使人类落后。
The Yangtze never runs backwards; man recaptures not his youth.
长江永不退流;人不能重获青春。
It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward.
在我看来，倒退有时意味着前进。
If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.
如果你站着不动，只有一条路可走，那就是后退。
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
我希望坚定立场，不后退，但又不急于前进，破坏国家的事业。
We're all goofed up. We've got it all backwards. He' s supposed to steal bases, and I'm supposed to hit the home runs.
我们都搞砸了。我们把它都反了。他应该偷垒，而我应该打出本垒打。
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
正是你们从现在开始所做的，要么推动我们的文明向前迈进一小步，要么……开始让我们稳步后退。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.
我休息了一下——我要回去工作了，我要做的最后一件事就是后退一步，所以我知道，如果我要开发一个功能，就必须向前迈进一步。
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.
因此，我们不能倒退，我们只能沿着进化的轨迹前进，把我们对自己和存在的想法调整到那个方向。
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.
我们这个时代的第二个特点是民族主义的盛行。这种情况仍在蔓延，影响着新的社区、更边缘的地区和所谓的落后民族。