Retrograde

(verb.) go back over; 'retrograde arguments'.

(verb.) move back; 'The glacier retrogrades'.

(verb.) move in a direction contrary to the usual one; 'retrograding planets'.

(verb.) move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies.

(adj.) of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma .

(adj.) moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth .

(adj.) going from better to worse .

伯特伦编辑

• I accordingly assembled my troop, and proposed to them this retrograde movement, instead of the continuation of our journey to Auxerre. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The fraction drum of the indicator could be driven in either direction, known as the advance and retrograde movements, and was divided and marked in eighths. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• During the night, General Banks continued his retrograde movement to Grand Ecore, and thence to Alexandria, which he reached on the 27th of April. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• But the retrograde movement towards the gate had begun--as unreasoningly, perhaps as blindly, as the simultaneous anger. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• To the credit of the machine, it should be said, that it was from no fault in the machine that this retrograde step was taken, but rather the disfavor of the labor organizations. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• We sent half our attendant troop on to Adrian; and with the other half our carriage took a retrograde course back to Windsor. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

吉恩编辑