0 to go back to doing something bad when you have been doing something good, especially to stop working hard or to fail to do something that you had agreed to do -- 倒退，退步；故态复萌（尤指不再努力工作或不做承诺过的事）
This feeling of ontological insecurity informed not only ' backsliding into heathendom ' but also the pronounced emotionalism of converts as an attempt to create trust in the new order.
Its purpose is to stop nations backsliding into bad old ways.
We must give every encouragement to reform and to democratisation in its broadest sense, rather than go along with backsliding into totalitarian rule.
Sometimes he is really quite a good workman and probably does not backslide more than just occasionally.
There are municipal tin-pot dictators about who will backslide as long as they can.
The general trajectory of a regime backsliding on its liberalizing promises emerges clearly.
Next, who will watch out for backsliding peers, analyse the attendance records and work out the percentages?
Some of them will, but others are of a type who will backslide from time to time.
