backwater
backwater
英[ˈbækwɔ:tə(r)]美[ˈbækˌwɔtɚ, -ˌwɑtɚ]
n.回水，回流，滞水，死水，闭塞的地方，不受外界事件或新思想影响的地方；
复数：backwaters;
例句
Cooling system of tool with backwater tank, filter, pump and installation until the adjacencies of spindle.配有背负式水箱 、 过滤 、 水泵等直达主轴端部的冷却系统.
I find this town too much of a backwater.我觉得这个城镇太闭塞.
Quebec remained a backwater until the 1960s.魁北克直到20世纪60年代还是一片死气沉沉。
...a quiet rural backwater...平静而与世隔绝的农村地区
It is a commonplace to say that Northern Ireland is a backwater in the modern Europe.说北爱尔兰是现代欧洲死气沉沉的落后地区已是陈词滥调了。
Britain could become a political backwater with no serious influence in the world...英国有变成在世界上没有真正影响力的**死水之虞。
...a quiet rural backwater.僻静的乡村
同义词
backwater的同义词之：
provincial柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
N-COUNT
闭塞的地方；与世隔绝的地方
A backwater is a place that is isolated.
例句
...a quiet rural backwater.僻静的乡村N-COUNT
停滞（或落后）的地方；一潭死水
If you refer to a place or institution as a backwater, you think it is not developing properly because it is isolated from ideas and events in other places and institutions.
例句
Britain could become a political backwater with no serious influence in the world...英国有变成在世界上没有真正影响力的**死水之虞。This agency will be relegated to the backwaters of Washington...这个机构将沦落为华盛顿闭塞落后之地。英英词典释义
Noun
1. a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam;
"the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos"2. any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress
行业词典
体育： 倒划；
