regression
英 [rɪˈɡreʃn]
美 [rɪˈɡreʃn]
n. 倒退; 回归; 退化
复数:regressions
BNC.7443 / COCA.5403
牛津词典
noun
- 倒退;回归;退化
the process of going back to an earlier or less advanced form or state
柯林斯词典
- VERB 倒退;退步;退化
When people or thingsregress, they return to an earlier and less advanced stage of development.- ...if your child regresses to babyish behaviour...
如果你的孩子退行到婴儿状态 - Such countries are not 'developing' at all, but regressing.
这些国家根本不是在“发展中”,而是在倒退。
- ...if your child regresses to babyish behaviour...
英英释义
noun
- returning to a former state
- the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
- an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely