Translation/Meaning of "be pushed back step by step towards the sea" — Japanese-English & English-Japanese Translation Dictionary

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be pushed back step by step towards the sea: じりじりと海に追いつめられて行くル・グィン著佐藤高子訳『風の十二方位・暗闇の箱』(Wind's Twelve Quarters ) p. 101