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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shirt-sleeve planted a shrewd blow in Hall's face that stopped his open-armed advance, and sent him backward into old Toothsome the sexton, and in another moment the garment was lifted up and became convulsed and vacantly flapping about the arms, even as a shirt that is being thrust over a man's head.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he remembered in a flash what the Burgomaster gull had screamed to him when he was a little yearling at Walrus Islet, and he tumbled backward in the water, for he knew that he had found Sea Cow at last.
-- Rikki-tikki smashed two eggs, and tumbled backward down the melon-bed with the third egg in his mouth, and scuttled to the veranda as hard as he could put foot to the ground.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that instant of extreme danger, a dark hand and glancing knife appeared before him; the Indian released his hold, as the blood flowed freely from around the severed tendons of the wrist; and while Duncan was drawn backward by the saving hand of Uncas, his charmed eyes still were riveted on the fierce and disappointed countenance of his foe, who fell sullenly and disappointed down the irrecoverable preci-pice.
-- The Mohican now found an opportunity to make a powerful thrust with his knife; Magua suddenly relinquished his grasp, and fell backward without motion, and seemingly without life.
-- Should it please God that we must give battle for the scalps, trust to the experience of men who know the ways of the savages, and who are not often backward when the war-whoop is howled.'
-- 'Hold them there, Sagamore,' said Hawkeye, looking coolly backward over this left shoulder, while he still plied his paddle; 'keep them just there.
-- He intimated his contempt of the offer with a backward motion of his head, and said, in a steady and settled voice: 'Le Renard Subtil is a great chief; he has but one mind.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Chink was not backward to defend himself, and a very lively quarrel ensued.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was difficult to fancy that any human creature had ever passed there, but yet Top went backward and forward, not like a dog who searches at random, but like a dog being endowed with a mind, who is following up an idea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He pressed his finger on his lip, and drew the child along by narrow courts and winding ways, nor did he seem at ease until they had left it far behind, often casting a backward look towards it, murmuring that ruin and self-murder were crouching in every street, and would follow if they scented them; and that they could not fly too fast.
-- This new illustration of his argument so tickled Kit, that he fell backward in his chair in a state of exhaustion, pointing at the baby and shaking his sides till he rocked again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, she walking backward and he walking forward, they came into their own room.
-- 'And naturally,' said Mr Blandois, replacing the watch and stepping backward to his former chair, 'you do not forget.'
-- Mr Flintwinch, who had spun backward some two or three yards under the impetus last given to him, brought himself up with a face completely unchanged in its stolidity except as it was affected by shortness of breath, and looked hard at Arthur.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I've seen unfortunate little creatures left to servants, or backward ones pushed forward, when it's real cruelty.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hiding his canoe, still afloat, among these thickets, with its prow seaward, he sat down in the stern, paddle low in hand; and when the ship was gliding by, like a flash he darted out; gained her side; with one backward dash of his foot capsized and sank his canoe; climbed up the chains; and throwing himself at full length upon the deck, grappled a ring-bolt there, and swore not to let it go, though hacked in pieces.
-- As for Fedallah, who was seen pulling the harpooneer oar, he had thrown aside his black jacket, and displayed his naked chest with the whole part of his body above the gunwale, clearly cut against the alternating depressions of the watery horizon; while at the other end of the boat Ahab, with one arm, like a fencer's, thrown half backward into the air, as if to counterbalance any tendency to trip; Ahab was seen steadily managing his steering oar as in a thousand boat lowerings ere the White Whale had torn him.
-- Furthermore, you are now to consider that only in the extreme, lower, backward sloping part of the front of the head, is there the slightest vestige of bone; and not till you get near twenty feet from the forehead do you come to the full cranial development.
-- At this moment Derick was in the act of pitching his lamp-feeder at the advancing boats, and also his oil-can; perhaps with the double view of retarding his rivals' way, and at the same time economically accelerating his own by the momentary impetus of the backward toss.
-- " but slipping backward on the deck, his uplifted eyes caught the flames; and immediately shifting his tone he cried "The corpusants have mercy on us all!"
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor was it under many, many minutes that she could comprehend what she heard; though not in general backward to credit what was for the advantage of her family, or that came in the shape of a lover to any of them.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No shoot,' says Friday, 'no yet; me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh:' and, indeed, so he did; for when the bear saw his enemy gone, he came back from the bough, where he stood, but did it very cautiously, looking behind him every step, and coming backward till he got into the body of the tree, then, with the same hinder end foremost, he came down the tree, grasping it with his claws, and moving one foot at a time, very leisurely.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She began to step backward toward the door, when something about her plaintive face attracted him.
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