backward是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 向后的， 倒行的； 迟钝的ad. 向后， 朝反方向，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The apparition walked backward from him; and at every step it took, the window raised itself a little, so that when the spectre reached it, it was wide open.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rounding his mouth and both his eyes, as he stepped backward from the table, the waiter shifted his napkin from his right arm to his left, dropped into a comfortable atti-tude, and stood surveying the guest while he ate and drank, as from an observatory or watchtower.
-- As these ruffians turned and turned, their matted locks now flung forward over their eyes, now flung backward over their necks, some women held wine to their mouths that they might drink; and what with dropping blood, and what with dropping wine, and what with the stream of sparks struck out of the stone, all their wicked atmosphere seemed gore and fire.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he was obsessed by the desire to spell backward all the words which snatched at him from signs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never shall forget seeing her fall backward onthe hard road, and lie there with her bonnet tumbled off, and herhair all whitened in the dust; nor, when I looked back from adistance, seeing her sitting on the pathway, which was a bank bythe roadside, wiping the blood from her face with the corner of hershawl, while he went on ahead.
-- While I advanced in friendship and intimacy with Mr. Dick, I didnot go backward in the favour of his staunch friend, my aunt.
-- I was awkward enough intheir games, and backward enough in their studies; but customwould improve me in the first respect, I hoped, and hard work inthe second.
-- Ham watched the sea, standing alone, with the silence ofsuspended breath behind him, and the storm before, until therewas a great retiring wave, when, with a backward glance at thosewho held the rope which was made fast round his body, he dashedin after it, and in a moment was buffeting with the water: risingwith the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the foam; thendrawn again to land.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But, you see, I wasn't so much to blame, for them J's and E's be such trying sons o' witches for the memory to mind whether they face backward or forward; and I always had such a forgetful memory, too."
-- She was leaning back, sipping a cup of tea that she held in her hand, and the owner of the male voice was Boldwood, who had apparently just brought the cup to her, Bathsheba, being in a negligent mood, leant so idly against the canvas that it was pressed to the shape of her shoulder, and she was, in fact, as good as in Troy's arms; and he was obliged to keep his breast carefully backward that she might not feel its warmth through the cloth as he gazed in.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her neck, rising from the black taffeta sheath of her basque, was creamy-skinned, rounded and slender, and it seemedalways tilted slightly backward by the weight of her luxuriant hair in its net at the back of her head.
-- Then Rhett leaned over andswiftly released it She flounced off without a word, without even a backward look, and he laughed softly and clickedto the horse.
-- He bent her body backward and his lipstraveled down her throat to where the cameo fastened her basque.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well!Joe is a dear good fellow,--in fact, I think he is the dearest fellow that ever lived,--but he is rather backward in some things.
-- With that, he went upon his knees, and began to flay his victim; who, on the first stocking coming off, would certainly have fallen over backward with his chair, but for there being no room to fall anyhow.
-- Still, in the same moment, I saw the face tilt backward with a white terror on it that I shall never forget, and heard a great cry on board the steamer, and a loud splash in the water, and felt the boat sink from under me.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon after this the sexton came to the house on a visit, and the father bewailed his trouble, and told him how his younger son was so backward in every respect that he knew nothing and learnt nothing.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates advancing, one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep un-der it, backward and forward, several times, according as the stick is advanced or depressed.
-- He then placed me softly on the ground upon all fours, but I got immediately up, and walked slowly backward and forward, to let those people see I had no intent to run away.
-- When the frog was got in, it hopped at once half the length of the boat, and then over my head, backward and forward, daubing my face and clothes with its odious slime.
-- On the roof of my closet, not directly over the middle of the hammock, I ordered the joiner to cut out a hole of a foot square, to give me air in hot weather, as I slept; which hole I shut at plea-sure with a board that drew backward and forward through a groove.
-- They went some paces off, as if it were to confer together, walking side by side, backward and forward, like persons deliberating upon some affair of weight, but often turning their eyes towards me, as it were to watch that I might not escape.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He gave a curious backward jerk of his head, indicating the outer world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They took one silent turn backward and forward in the shade of the wall, getting, at the height on which the quarantine barracks are placed, what cool refreshment of sea breeze there was at seven in the morning.
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