backsliding 

英汉解释

v. 倒退；滑坡；故态复萌（backslide的现在分词）

同义词

n. lapse，lapsing，relapse，relapsing

参考例句

1. This means that the system only improves, always notching forward, never backsliding.
这意味着系统只能够被改进，总是向前的，从不会倒退。
2. On one point, however, experts agree: when it comes to teenage births, the United States is backsliding.
但是，专家们至少在一点上取得了共识：那就是谈及青少年生育时，美国在倒退。
3. Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
你们这背道的儿女阿，回来吧。我要医治你们背道的病。看哪，我们来到你这里，因你是耶和华我们的神。

英英解释

n.
  1. a failure to maintain a higher state

网络释义

Backsliding
德国摇滚; 堕落;
Backsliding and apostasy
背信;
For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer
因为以色列倔强，犹如倔强的母牛; 现在耶和华要牧放他们，如同牧放羊羔在宽阔之地么？;
And my people are bent to backsliding from me
我的民偏要背道离开我，众申言者虽然招呼他们归向至上的主，却无人尊崇祂。;