backwardness

1.We are struggling with backwardness.

我们在和落后现象做斗争。

2.But then the British claimed to be rescuing Ireland from the backwardness of obscurantist papism - but forgot to ask the Irish about it.

一千万美元一枚和一百美元一枚的区别就是为了在别国的领土上少伤一点别国的无辜者。”