Retrogression
[,retrə(ʊ)'greʃ(ə)n] or [,rɛtrə'grɛʃən]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.
(n.) Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Retrogradation.
校對:拉里
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Retreat, retirement, decline, relapse
ANT:Advance, progress, improvement, amelioration
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例句/造句/用法:
- But how about the foresight and the moral retrogression? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Politically Islam was not an advance, but a retrogression from the traditional freedoms and customary laws of the desert. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- After some retrogression, Mexico, Brazil, and Spanish South America began to develop into great slave-holding, wealth-producing lands. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In some few cases there has been what we must call retrogression or organisation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The final result will generally have been, as already explained, an advance, but in some few cases a retrogression, in organisation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
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