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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they rose up from the ground, and took the shady track which led them through the wood, she bounded on before, printing her tiny footsteps in the moss, which rose elastic from so light a pressure and gave it back as mirrors throw off breath; and thus she lured the old man on, with many a backward look and merry beck, now pointing stealthily to some lone bird as it perched and twittered on a branch that strayed across their path, now stopping to listen to the songs that broke the happy silence, or watch the sun as it trembled through the leaves, and stealing in among the ivied trunks of stout old trees, opened long paths of light.
-- When he had finished, he walked slowly backward from the writing, admiring it as one might contemplate a beautiful picture, but with something of sadness in his voice and manner which quite touched the child, though she was unacquainted with its cause.
-- cried Quilp, looking up at the old gateway, and showing in the moonlight like some monstrous image that had come down from its niche and was casting a backward glance at its old house, 'faster!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether he received an unpleasant letter from his mother, or was backward in his composition, or felt the ceaseless sadness of youth, it would suffice for him to see her and his spirit resumed its wonted good cheer.
-- I know that Hellen and all of you are very backward in that respect.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so.
-- The hands spun backward upon the dials.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From time to time, indeed, I had to lend him a hand, or he must have missed his footing and fallen backward down the hill.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was clear, then, that the instrument producing the perforation was not of a common stamp and, after having been driven with prodigious strength, and piercing an iron plate/8 inches thick, had withdrawn itself by a backward motion.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was all a foolish backward and forward, a violent oscillation that would at length be too violent for his coherency, and he would smash and be dead.
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