look backward

基本解释

Replaying those stories is the same as reliving them. It's impossible to move forward when you're always looking backward.
一遍遍重复着故事就像一次次的重新体验，如果你一直回头看，那就不能大步向前了。
Dole did discuss restoring the values of an earlier America, but Clinton falsely implied that Dole was only looking backward (whereas Clinton was looking forward).
道尔的确讨论过重建早期美国的价值观，但克林顿不准确地暗示到道尔仅仅是往以前看(然而克林顿却在面向未来）。
The agencies, looking backward at the accumulated data, continued to give their top rating to securities that were piling up risk as each week went by and the real estate markets started to wobble.
那些评级机构只是查看以前累积下来的数据后继续给那些债券最高的评级，但随着时间的推移和房地产市场出现的波动，这些债券正在积累大量风险。

And the assumptions can only be measured exactly by looking backward at historical returns.
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The folks at Ford Motor can be forgiven for spending some time looking backward.
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Looking backward, IBM might have chosen differently had it known how important PCs were to become.
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