backwaters

英 [ˈbækˌwɔːtəz] 美 [ˈbæˌkwɔtərz]

n.  (河流的)滞水，壅水，回水; 与世隔绝的(或缺乏生气的、落后的)地区
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柯林斯词典

  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。
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  1. 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。
  2. Jane's been really lucky having the money and time to spend traveling around Europe to its backwaters off the beaten track.
    简真幸运有钱有闲游遍了欧洲，包括那些常人不会光顾的角落。
  3. Most of his critics, he says, are young people who are either ashamed he's airing China's dirty linen, or don't even realize that the corrupt backwaters he describes still exist in modern China.
    他说，大多数批评他的人是年轻人，他们或者不喜欢看到他揭露中国黑暗的一面，或者根本没有意识到他在书中描写的那些阴暗面依然存在于现代的中国。
  4. When I was at college [ Mr Rogers was born in 1942] people used to talk about the City and Wall Street as backwaters.
    当我还在大学读书的时候（罗杰斯生于1942年），人们习惯于将伦敦金融城以及华尔街称为死水一样的落后地方。
  5. Quantum mechanics is such a rain forest of a theory, filled with indescribably weird animals and endlessly explorable backwaters, that seeking to reduce it to classical physics seems like trying to grow the Amazon from a rock garden.
    量子力学就像是一座雨林，充满无法形诸笔墨的珍奇动物以及无数有待探索的偏僻水域，要将它归纳入古典物理之中，就好比试图在一座光秃秃的岩石公园中种植出亚马逊森林。
  6. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
    在古老银河系的螺旋状西臂末端，任何地图都还没标示过的蛮荒地带，有个丝毫不引人注目的小小黄色恒星。
  7. As Secretary of State Kissinger sent him next to the relative backwaters of Ecuador and Greece.
    基辛格任国务卿后，随即将其派往相对落后的厄瓜多尔和希腊。
  8. She decided that life in the backwaters of Yorkshire was too dull, so she moved to london.
    她觉得在约克郡这种死气沉沉的地方生活过于枯燥，所以就搬到伦敦。
  9. It typifies the changes seen in many western towns that once were sleepy backwaters based on mining or timber.
    它是许多原本死水一潭的基于矿业或林业经济的西部城镇变革的典型。
  10. 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。
  11. Some communities have chosen to live near protected backwaters, which offer the distance from the ocean while allowing them to haul in their boats at the end of the day.
    有些社区选择靠近受保护的回水区，因为这里既与大海保持了一定的距离，又可以在打完鱼后将渔船收在这里。
  12. These things happen: bright young things never last long in backwaters.
    情况总是这样：年轻有为的人决不会在死水中待很久。
  13. Rural backwaters in Japan with excellent transport and civilised local shops and restaurants are a real novelty.
    风貌保存完好的日本乡村有着一流的交通和城市化的当地商店和餐馆，这对中国富人来说乃是真正的新奇所在。
  14. Less aggressive than Gucci's in its styling, the show was inspired by McQueen's voyage across India, from tropical Cochin backwaters to Udaipur and Kathmandu.
    麦奎因的时装秀在式样上不像古姿那么咄咄逼人，其灵感来自他穿越印度的旅行，他从科钦的热带死水水域，一直走到了乌代浦和加德满都。
  15. We still skim the backwaters of ponds and streams for the seed of Betula, Acer Salix and Populus species.
    我们仍然要在池塘的静水上和溪流中捞取桦木，槭树、杨、柳等树的种子。
  16. Especially, they always face many difficulties and backwaters in process of untangle of property rights in old systems, enlargement of business scale and establishment of modern company management model, etc.
    尤其在理清旧有体制下的企业产权，扩张企业规模，建立现代公司制管理模式等方面，民营企业有诸多困惑和停滞。
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