After living in a mansion. That is some serious downsizing.

在豪宅里生活过后，这可大退步啊。

Wow. Way to set feminism back a few steps.

女平等的退步啊。

The Al Jazeera news agency said the sanctions were a backward step.

半岛电视台表示制裁一种退步。

A setback is something that pushes you back.

“Setback”让你退步的东西。

And why it's holding you back.

那就让你退步的原因。

His development (or retrogression) was rapid.

他的进步(或者说退步)很快。

Larry's grades slid a lot last semester, so he lost the scholarship.

赖瑞上学期的成绩大幅退步，所以错失了奖学金。

And it's also regressive. It gives more money to higher wage earners.

而且这也一种退步。这会增加高收入人群的收入。

And they gave him a two-day ultimatum to stand down and surrender.

他们给他下了两天的最后通牒，要求他退步投降。

Because otherwise we're back to just using people and coercing people.

否则，社会就退步到利用人强迫人的阶段了。

" But they can't if they continue to lose ground, " she said.

“但他们的成绩如果继续退步，就无法实现。”

I also felt there were periods where I would get worse before I got better.

我也觉得在我进步之前， 有段时间在退步。

Not that it could get any worse.

表现好多了嘛。不过本来也就没什么可退步的。

Yemen, India, Syria, Botswana and Venezuela have experienced the largest declines.

也门、印度、叙利亚、博茨瓦纳和委内瑞拉则退步最大。

My grandfather's ability to beat anyone at chess has weakened over the last few years.

过去几年来，袓父打遍天下无敌手的棋艺渐趋退步。

But 1% worse every day over a year will bring you close to zero!

但一年多下来，每天退步 1%，你就会接近于零！

Watch the news every day and the world seems to be going backwards, not forwards.

我们每天看新闻时觉得 这个世界在退步，而不进步。

Nation's major airlines apparently suffer something with setback in May in terms of on-time arrivals.

五月，美国主要航空公司在航班准点问题上的表现明显退步。

Indeed, women's views on gender roles have shown signs of regressing in recent years.

事实上，女性对性别角色的看法近年来有退步的迹象。

For holding meetings, crack open William Golding's " Lord of the Flies" (arguments descend into savagery).

对于开会，不妨翻开威廉·戈尔丁的《蝇王》（争论退步成野蛮行为）。