Looking backward is one way that we learn.

回顾过去是我们学习的一种方式。

But you're looking at it backward.

但你们想得太简单了。

Looking backward, Dr.Namboodiri explains, permits investigation of an arbitrarily long list of possible causes.

南博迪里博士解释说，回顾过去，可以分析很多可能造成某个结果的原因。

So, we have been looking backward.Let's look forward.

所以，我们一直在向后看。让我们向前看。

But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

但 10 年后回过头来看，这一点非常非常清楚。

She went quickly to the bedside. Johnsy's eyes were open wide. She was looking out the window and counting - counting backward.

她快步走到床边。 琼珊的眼睛睁得很大。她望着窗外，数着… … 倒过来数。

Looking backward means you will spend your time wishing things were the same and second-guessing yourself.

向后看意味着你会花时间希望事情是一样的， 然后再猜测自己。

Then all paused to look backward, but not a trace of the field of sunflowers remained.

然后所有人都停下来回头看，但向日葵田没有留下任何痕迹。

Johnsy's eyes were open wide. She was looking out the window and counting - counting backward.

琼西的眼睛睁得大大的。她看着窗外，数着——倒数着。

This week, we'll look backward, to the beginning of the nineteen twenties – the Jazz Age, flapper, silent movies, more automobiles on the streets...

本周，我们将回顾20世纪20年代初期，爵士乐时代、新潮女郎、无声电影，街道上更多的汽车等等。

Taking off his cap, he bowed low and opened the door of the prison, and Pinocchio ran out and away, with never a look backward.

他脱帽行礼，打开牢门。皮诺乔跑了出去，一眼都没有往后看。

" Our departed leader never looked backward. He looked forward and moved forward. That is what he would want us to do. That is what America will do" .

" 我们的前任领导人从不回头。他向前看，向前走，这就是他希望我们做的事情，这就是美国将要做的事情。"

She could gather no elation of spirits now by looking forward, but only by looking backward to build confidence on past words and caresses.

她现在不能通过向前看来获得精神上的兴高采烈，而只能通过向后看来建立对过去的话语和爱抚的信心。

Despite all her fond words, Agnes had discarded me as comprehensively and completely as a lizard sheds its skin—and not cast a backward look.

尽管她说了那么多甜言蜜语，艾格尼丝还是像蜥蜴蜕皮一样彻底彻底地抛弃了我——而且没有回头看。

So we feel bad when we look backward and say to ourselves, if only, that's the catchphrase, if only I had decided differently, taken a different path, the present would be better.

当我们回顾过去，就像标语一样对自己说，如果我当初能做出不同的决定，走一条不同的道路，现在会更好，有这样的想法的同时我们会感觉很糟糕。

In hindsight, so much so that what I've read has predicted, and this is only looking backward that I can see this, has predicted where my career has gone.

事后看来， 我所读到的内容已经预测到了，这只是我回顾过去时看到的，已经预测了我的职业发展方向。

Throughout the South for fifty years there would be bitter-eyed women who looked backward, to dead times, to dead men, evoking memories that hurt and were futile, bearing poverty with bitter pride because they had those memories.

在未来５０年里，整个南方会到处有那种带讽刺眼光的女人在向后看，回顾逝去的年代和已逝去的人，勾起徒然令人伤心的记忆，并且以拥有这些记忆为极大骄傲来忍受眼前的贫困。

But if we're really serious about returning competition and consumer protection to the digital economy, it's simply not enough to look backward and put a harm right that has already occurred.

但是，如果我们真的认真对待将竞争和消费者保护带回数字经济，仅仅回顾过去并修复已经发生的伤害是不够的。

And if I look backwards three decades or forward three decades -- looking backward three decades, Ebola, SARS, Zika, swine flu, bird flu, West Nile, we can begin almost a catechism and listen to all the cacophony of these names.

如果我向后看三十年或向前看三十年——向后看三十年， 埃博拉病毒、非典型肺炎、寨卡病毒、猪流感、禽流感、西尼罗河，我们几乎可以开始教义问答并聆听这些名字的所有杂音。