American conservatism, before he began to shake it up, was dour, backward-looking, anti-intellectual and isolationist, especially when viewed from the east coast.

克里斯托使美国保守主义脱胎换骨前，它一直留与世人（尤其东部人）刻板与保守的印象，它敌视知识分子，顽守孤立主义。

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The instant polar movement has backward movement (from east to west).

瞬时极移存在反向运动(由东向西)。

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In 1996 the German government was still tossing around generous handouts to investors willing to bet on the backward east.

FORBES: Bloc Haus

This grandstanding was begun by Antonio Carlos Magalhaes, a tough conservative political boss from Bahia, in the backward north-east.

ECONOMIST: Brazil