backward-looking
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Not progressive; concerned with the past rather than the present or future.
— [I]t is interesting to note that Sengupta includes over 120 similar out-of-date terms from the days of the Raj and before, thus revealing the extent to which the glossary is, in a sense, backward-looking, which is inconsistent with the fact that it is meant to be a supplement of a dictionary of "current" English.
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