He unlocked the door of apartment two and disappeared inside after a backward glance at Larry.

他打开2号公寓的门锁，向后瞥了拉里一眼之后走进去就不见了。

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The current U.S. farm bill, however, is a big step backward.

然而，目前的美国农业法却倒退了一大步。

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He works backward, building a house from the top downward.

他倒着干活，从上往下盖房子。

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Here,he uses a set of buttons attached to a computer to make the silent robot move forward, backward or around in circles.

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we can run the engine backward and build a refrigerator, if you've got your lecture notes from last period your 8-9, well, they're labeled 8-9 lecture notes, I made an attempt to define something which was a little bit misguided.

现在我们可以把热机倒过来,制作一台制冷机，如果你们拿出上节课的笔记,也就是8-9节，好的，他们在8-9节，当时我试着,定义了一些,有些误导你们的物理量。

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If that's all it knows, then in that scenario there is no building or anything else; it continues a trajectory both forward in time and backward in time, and it says that whatever seconds, one second before you set your clock to 0, it would've been on the ground.

如果是这样,在那种模式下,没有楼房或者别的什么,物体的运动轨迹可以沿时间可以向后延伸,也可以向前延伸,不管时间取什么值,在零点前一秒时,物体就在地面上

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Definitely a step backward for a society that increasingly values and needs a means to vent.

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Last September when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amazingly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so roundly denounced as a step backward and a weakening of the iPhone environment that chief executive Tim Cook had to release a public apology.

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With a deafening mechanical whine, the Instron's piston bore down on the metal leg inside the boot, mimicking the effect of a skier falling backward, a move that has ruptured thousands of knee ligaments.

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