1.the lazy behavior of someone who goes back to doing something bad after not doing it for some time
1.Gandhi himself, for the sake of his health, had to compromise on milk, but seems to have felt this to be a backsliding.
甘地本人为了健康不得不让不喝牛奶，但好象觉得那是后退。
2.It means a bit of backsliding : he will have to revise his position on guns if he is to succeed in the West and the South.
这意味着一种倒退：如果他想在美国西部和南部赢得人心的话，他必须转变他在枪支使用问题上的立场。
3.Indeed, their plans will work only if markets remain alert, ready to jump on any hints of backsliding.
确实如此，只有市场保持警觉并且一旦有任何倒退的蛛丝马迹，就能随时上涨时，他们的计划才能奏效。
4.Such backsliding, even if founded on a realistic assessment of the risks, is bound to antagonise his opponents.
这样一种后退，就算是建立在对现况风险评估后的基础上，也必定会引起反对者更大的敌意。
5.Bush accused Moscow of derailing reforms, backsliding on democracy. Russia is criticizing US plans for a missile defense system.
布什指责俄罗斯脱离改革退回了民主主义，俄罗斯批评美国导弹防御计划。
6.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。
7.In neither case had the growth been smoothly progressive, and in both cases, there would be backsliding.
以上两个例子都没有一帆风顺的朝进步方向发展，都有开历史倒车的时候。
8.And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
我的民偏要背道离开我，众先知虽然招呼他们归向至上的主，却无人尊崇主。
9.The danger is that the president's troubles will provide unsympathetic governments with an alibi for backsliding.
危险在于世行行长的麻烦将为那些缺乏同情心的政府提供立场倒退的托辞。
10.The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done?
约西亚王在位的时候，耶和华又对我说，背道的以色列所行的，你看见没有。