retrogress
vi. 倒退,逆行,退化; [生]退化
1. get worse; fall back to a previous or worse condition
2. go back to bad behavior;
In its absence China would retrogress into division and chaos, and modernization would become impossible.
动摇了中国就要倒退到分裂和混乱, 就不可能实现现代化.
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