For every two steps forward, it often feels we take one step back.

我们前进两，倒退。

And it just seems like we're going backward.

我们好像在倒退。

It's just a regression, it's profound and detrimental.

这是种倒退行为，有深刻的影响并且有害。

The light of the Moon moves time backwards.

月光可以让时光倒退。

The trees rushed past at great speed.

树木在飞快地倒退着。

So let's talk about that backshift in tenses.

所以让我们谈谈时态倒退。

Maybe time can only move forward and never backwards.

也许时间只能前进，不能倒退。

The Lanky One steps back and nods eagerly.

盲流倒退，个劲点头。

The toy has two modes: drive and reverse.

前进与倒退。

Taken aback, he halted and looked round.

他倒退了，站住了，四面看看。

Why did he tell us to go back three hours?

他为什么告诉我们倒退三个小时？

– one that may finally be immune to the reversal of progress.

个最终可能不因发展而倒退的世界。

And unfortunately there has been a regression in West Asia.

然而不幸的是亚洲西部呈现倒退迹象。

He has the chance to stop Guatemala's democratic backslide.

他有机阻止危地马拉的民主倒退。

Why is that retreat happening, do you think?

你认为导致这种倒退的原因是什么？

But as they get older, their attitudes may regress faster than society's progress.

但随着他们年龄的增长，其态度的倒退比社前进的速度还快。

And Fiona is only going to set that reconstruction back even more.

飓风“菲奥娜”只让重建进程更倒退。

I'm just not convinced it's the right way forward, to go backward.

我就是觉得走向未来不该用倒退的方式。

Regress is the opposite of 'progress'.

倒退是‘进’的反面。

But first, let's take a step back in time to 2001.

但首先，让我们倒退到 2001 年。