backwater

noun

1. （河流的）滞水，壅水，回水
   a part of a river away from the main part, where the water only moves slowly
2. 与世隔绝的（或缺乏生气的、落后的）地区
   a place that is away from the places where most things happen, and is therefore not affected by events, progress, new ideas, etc.
   1. a sleepy/quiet/rural backwater
      沉寂的 / 宁静的 / 乡下的落后地区

1. N-COUNT 闭塞的地方；与世隔绝的地方
   A backwater is a place that is isolated.
   1. ...a quiet rural backwater.
      僻静的乡村
2. 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.
   1. 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政治死水之虞。
   2. 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。
   3. 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。

1. 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政治死水之虞。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. These ever-accelerating changes have transformed China from a Communist backwater to the world's fourth-largest economy.
   几十年来中国社会发生了翻天覆地的变化，曾经的一潭死水如今已跃升为全球第四大经济体。
6. Today most Freuds live in London, and Vienna is a backwater.
   如今，大多数弗洛伊德们生活在伦敦，维也纳成了一潭死水。
7. A century from now, London could be a backwater too.
   一个世纪之后，伦敦也可能成为一潭死水。
8. But by the 1970s, the city had become a backwater.
   但到了1970年代，这座城市就成了一湾死水。
9. Many people consider our town a small provincial backwater, lacking both culture and the amenities of modern life.
   很多人认为我们镇是地方的一小潭死水，既缺少文化又没有现代生活的便利。
10. I work for a big media group as head of a department that is something of a backwater.
    我是一家大型媒体公司的部门主管，而这个部门犹如一潭死水。
11. The reach of Chongqing City is in the variable backwater region of Three Gorges Reservoir, and it is also the reach as the Jialingjiang River flowing into the Yangtse River.
    重庆主城区河段处于三峡水库变动回水区，又是嘉陵江汇入长江的河段，水流条件和泥沙运动十分复杂。
12. There aren't any good shops in this village; it's just a backwater.
    这个村庄没有什么好店铺，简直是穷乡僻壤。
13. My dream, it is not a backwater.
    我的梦，它不是一潭死水。
14. But Egypt, despite a cadre of well-educated young people, has struggled as an economic backwater.
    但是尽管埃及拥有一大批受过良好教育的青年骨干人才，可它的国民经济却在衰退中苦苦挣扎。
15. Seasonal Variation of Trophic States in Backwater Areas of Tributaries in Three Gorges Reservoir
    湖体处于中度富营养状态。三峡水库支流回水区营养状态季节变化
16. He grew up in a rural backwater.
    他在闭塞的农村长大。
17. The backwater regions of the free vibration of sliding systems with linear, hardening or softening restoring force are analyzed comprehensively; relevant analytical solutions are obtained;
    综合分析了线性、渐硬和渐软恢复力滑移系统自由振动的停滞区，给出了三种滑移系统停滞区的解析解；
18. Less than an hour away from the chaotic heart of New Orleans lays a primordial backwater morass known as the Honey Island Swamp.
    从新奥尔良的混乱的中心不到一个小时的路程有一个原始的被称为蜂蜜岛沼泽的“回水泥沼”。
19. Analysis for the reasonable dock and port form in fluctuating backwater area of the Three Gorges Reservoir
    三峡库区变动回水区港口码头合理型式分析
20. Here's our backwater at last, where we're going to lunch.
    好啦，咱们的静水湾到了，该在这儿吃午饭了。
21. Not because your department is a backwater; backwaters can be perfectly nice.
    不是因为你的部门是一潭死水；死水可以变活。
22. If policymakers leave commodities trading unattended, this erstwhile backwater could one day become a sea of economic troubles.
    如果政策制定者们对大宗商品交易放任不管，这一昔日的回水可能有朝一日会变成经济的麻烦之海。
23. Fluvial process and waterway regulation in fluctuating backwater area of the Three Gorges
    三峡水库变动回水区河床演变及航道整治
24. For many years, the commodities sector was an economic backwater.
    许多年间，大宗商品行业曾是经济中的一处回水。
25. So we got a backwater drift to sign the charter.
    我们让死水流动来标记这一时刻。
26. Bridge design criteria of design floods for such purposes as the evaluation of backwater, clearance, and overtopping has been established.
    已经确立了设计洪水的桥梁设计标准，用以实现评估回水、桥下净空及满溢的目的。
27. The town is a cultural backwater.
    这个城镇是一个文化贫瘠的地方。
28. Nonhistone chromosomal proteins Whitewater: Also called "backwater".
    非组蛋白染色体蛋白质白水：又称回收水。
29. Its origins lie in the credit markets, coverage of which in most news organisations counted as a backwater.
    其发源地在于信贷市场，而多数新闻机构将对这一领域的报道视为死水区。

noun

1. a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring
   1. the country is an economic backwater

2. a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam
   1. the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos