Backslide



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.故态复萌
• ［英］ v.故态复萌 ( revert to bad habits)
• ［记］ back ( 向后) +slide ( 滑动) -> 往后滑
• ［例］ I managed to keep off cigarettes for two months, but recently I'm afraid I've begun to backslide.

Webster Collegiate

intransitive verb (backslid; -slid or backslidden; backsliding)

• Date: 1552
• 1. to lapse morally or in the practice of religion
• 2. to revert to a worse condition ; retrogress
• ? backslide noun
• ? backslider noun

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