Word · 単語
後退
Reading こうたい
retreat
- 1 retreat, falling back, moving backwards, reversing, backing up (of a vehicle), retrogression, retraction
- 2 recession, waning
- 3 backspace (key)
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例文 · examples
前進しないことは後退につながる。
Not to advance is to go back.
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社会情勢は前進というより後退している。
Social conditions are going backward rather than forward.
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自動車の売れ行きは年度末に後退しました。
Automobile sales suffered a setback at the end of the financial year.
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われわれは敵の攻勢に後退した。
We recoiled from the enemy's offensive.
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彼は前進も後退もすまいと決めた。
He decided neither to advance nor to retreat.
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