backwater

美 [?bæk?w?t?r] 　英 [?bæk?w??t?(r)]

• n.回水；與世隔絕的地區(qū)；落后地區(qū)
• v.倒劃；〈美口〉放棄原來的立場(chǎng)；食言
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)死水；回水處；回水河汊

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例句

The race is now on to pull Iraq out of the scientific backwater it has become through two decades of war, UN sanctions and dictatorship.

如今，讓伊拉克脫離科學(xué)停滯狀態(tài)的競(jìng)賽已經(jīng)開始，持續(xù)二十年的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)、聯(lián)合國(guó)的制裁和獨(dú)裁造成了這種停滯。

Less than an hour away from the chaotic heart of New Orleans lays a primordial backwater morass known as the Honey Island Swamp.

從新奧爾良的混亂的中心不到一個(gè)小時(shí)的路程有一個(gè)原始的被稱為蜂蜜島沼澤的“回水泥沼”。

It was quite a shock for some Russians in a rural backwater of the Urals recently to see lorry-loads of Chinese troops go by.

對(duì)烏拉爾的鄉(xiāng)村地區(qū)的一些俄羅斯人來說，最近看到一車車中國(guó)軍隊(duì)路過是相當(dāng)令人震驚的。

Passing the more feverish parts of the City toward the most perfect backwater in London, he ruminated.

穿過商業(yè)區(qū)那些比較塵囂的部分向倫敦最僻靜的街道走來時(shí)，他不禁感慨系之。

With a slight movement of his head Rat, who had long dropped the rudder-lines, directed the rower to take the backwater.

河鼠早就放下了舵，這時(shí)，他把頭輕輕一揚(yáng)，示意鼴鼠向回水灣劃去。

Yet this pleasant port-city today feels something of a backwater, cut off by mountains and winding roads from the rest of Kyushu.

然而受高山和蜿蜒的道路所阻，這個(gè)舒適的港口城市今天陷入停滯的狀態(tài)。

A century ago, you were but a minor port on the Yangtze, a backwater of south-central China with a slightly different name, Chungking.

一個(gè)世紀(jì)以前，你只是揚(yáng)子江上的一個(gè)小河港，一個(gè)中國(guó)中南部的閉塞之地，有一個(gè)略顯不同的名字，重慶。

Built on wooden pilings sunk in the ooze of a backwater lagoon, Venice rose over a millennium to become a city-state of dazzling power.

建立在立于死水礁湖軟泥區(qū)的木樁結(jié)構(gòu)之上，威尼斯在千年后崛起成為一個(gè)擁有耀眼權(quán)力的城邦。

Its backwater, due to bridge constrictions , is different from that of alluvial channels.

建橋后，由于橋位斷面壓縮而導(dǎo)致的壅水與一般沖積河流不同。

The backwater inlet passes through a second valve and directly communicates with the concentrated water outlet of the pressure container.

水箱的回水口經(jīng)第二閥門與壓力容器的濃水出口直接相通；

But is Singapore, long regarded by critics as a cultural backwater, progressive enough to develop a thriving arts scene?

但是，經(jīng)常被評(píng)論人士稱之為文化荒漠的新加坡此番取得的進(jìn)步是否足夠創(chuàng)造出一個(gè)蓬勃發(fā)展的藝術(shù)氛圍呢？

River knows, he will become backwater if reluctant to leave bank. So he sings all the way, pursue the sea.

小河明白與河岸相戀，便會(huì)變成一潭死水。于是他一路歡歌，去追求博大寬容的大海。

Backwater Water held or pushed back by or as if by a dam or current.

逆流，回水：被或似乎被水壩或急流止住或往回流的水。

I work for a big media group as head of a department that is something of a backwater.

我是一家大型媒體公司的部門主管，而這個(gè)部門猶如一潭死水。

When Drucker first turned his mind to the subject in the 1940s it was a backwater.

二十世紀(jì)40年代當(dāng)德魯克首次轉(zhuǎn)而關(guān)注此學(xué)科時(shí)它還是一潭死水。

Since the mid-1990s it has become obvious that the bottleneck would need to be cleared, or the canal would become a backwater.

90年代中期以來，這一瓶頸問題愈發(fā)突出，運(yùn)河亟需擴(kuò)建疏導(dǎo)，否則將變成死水。

Ago Bay is no longer a quiet backwater. Today it is a busy port surrounded by residential and tourist development.

AGOBAY已不再是平靜的海灣，今天它的周圍是蓬勃發(fā)展的旅游業(yè)和居民區(qū)。

The business was a backwater in the commodities markets for decades, dominated by small, independent operators.

幾十年來，這項(xiàng)業(yè)務(wù)一直是大宗商品市場(chǎng)的死角，由小型獨(dú)立運(yùn)營(yíng)商占主導(dǎo)地位。

Over the past two decades Israel has been transformed from a semisocialist backwater into a high-tech superpower.

過去二十年里，以色列從一個(gè)一潭死水的半社會(huì)主義國(guó)家，已經(jīng)轉(zhuǎn)變成為一支高科技的超級(jí)力量。

FOR most of the 20th century, the small countries of Central America were a backwater, a tropical playground for dictators and adventurers.

二十世紀(jì)的大部分時(shí)間里，中美洲的小國(guó)家閉關(guān)鎖國(guó)，是獨(dú)裁者與冒險(xiǎn)家的熱帶游樂場(chǎng)。

Backwater hole and then right to the water flow convergence, the flow along the spiral case.

然后與右回水孔流來的水匯合，順著蝸殼流動(dòng)。

Yet for most of the Bush years the Treasury has been a backwater.

不過，在布什總統(tǒng)當(dāng)政的大部分歲月里，財(cái)政部不過是死水一潭。

Transport has been a political backwater for years.

交通問題很多年來一直是英國(guó)政治上的一灘死水。

In silence Mole rowed steadily, and soon they came to a point where the river divided, a long backwater branching off to one side.

鼴鼠默默地劃著船，不一會(huì)，他們來到了一處河道分岔的地方，一股長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的回水向一旁分流出去。

Listen here! If I chose this backwater outpost, it wasn't to do business.

聽著！我呆在這個(gè)回水管可不是為了做生意

Then the harrowing, hope rain, dressing, backwater hoe weeding, together with procedures, leads to a longing eyes.

然后耙地，盼雨，追肥，壅鋤拔草，一道道工序，引出一個(gè)個(gè)企盼的眼神。

Unlike Egypt, which celebrates 100 years of Arab cinema this year, the UAE was a desert backwater before the 1970s oil boom.

埃及于去阿拉伯年慶祝阿拉伯電影業(yè)已經(jīng)100年的歷史，而聯(lián)合大公國(guó)曾是一處止水，直到70年代才因石油產(chǎn)業(yè)聲名大噪。

NOT long ago, Lod, an Israeli city near the commercial hub of Tel Aviv, was a sleepy backwater.

盧德鎮(zhèn)坐落于以色列商業(yè)中心特拉維夫附近，不久前，這兒還只是個(gè)閉塞落后的窮鄉(xiāng)僻壤。

Any culture is not all a puddle of backwater, with the times change , culture changes unceasingly also in developing unceasingly.

任何文化全部不是一灘死水，隨著時(shí)代的變化，文化也在不斷地發(fā)展，不斷地變遷。

Psychiatric treatment has returned. But mental health remains a medical backwater, desperately short of financing, practitioners and esteem.

今天，精神病治療已經(jīng)恢復(fù)，但心理健康在醫(yī)學(xué)上卻是一潭死水，停滯不前，資金、從業(yè)者和職業(yè)受尊重度都極度缺乏。

If policymakers leave commodities trading unattended, this erstwhile backwater could one day become a sea of economic troubles.

如果政策制定者們對(duì)大宗商品交易放任不管，這一昔日的回水可能有朝一日會(huì)變成經(jīng)濟(jì)的麻煩之海。

In Erzurum, an eastern backwater, girls and boys can be seen strolling hand in hand, for which they might until recently have been flogged.

在東部落后地區(qū)的埃爾祖魯姆（Erzurum），可以看到女孩和男孩攜手悠閑地散步，因?yàn)?/c>直到最近，他們或許已被鞭打過了。

The "Thriller" -period videos were instrumental in converting MTV from a backwater to a sensation.

《顫栗》時(shí)期的音樂視頻幫助MTV從落伍轉(zhuǎn)向轟動(dòng)的境況。

Potter was a British soldier killed in 1939, and his grave is drawing tourists to the backwater Israeli town of Ramle.

他的墓吸引了眾多游客爭(zhēng)相來到這個(gè)閉塞的以色列小鎮(zhèn)拉姆勒。

Skywalker spent his restless childhood on the backwater desert planet of Tatooine, toiling away on his uncle's moisture farm.

在沙漠行星塔圖因，盧克在伯伯的濕地農(nóng)場(chǎng)里辛勤勞作，渡過了忙碌的童年。

Short of such radicalism, many people ask what is wrong with being a backwater of wealth and civility in an out-of-kilter world.

很多人雖然沒有這么激進(jìn)，但他們覺得，在當(dāng)今這個(gè)失衡的世界里，保護(hù)本國(guó)財(cái)富和文化不受外來事物影響沒有什么不好。

John Connor, head of the Climate Institute, a Sydney research body, says Australia now risks becoming a "carbon backwater" .

氣候研究院是悉尼的一家調(diào)研機(jī)構(gòu)，該院院長(zhǎng)約翰?康納表示，澳大利亞現(xiàn)在冒著“碳閉塞”的危險(xiǎn)。

The joint venture calls for the companies to explore three sections in the Kara Sea, an icebound coastal backwater north of central Russia.

該合資企業(yè)要求這兩個(gè)公司探索喀拉海（KaraSea）的三個(gè)部分，喀拉海位于中俄羅斯的北部，是一個(gè)冰封的沿海的閉塞地區(qū)。

slough: Also slue A stagnant swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, an inlet, or a backwater.

也作slue停滯的水域，泥濘的沼澤：渾濁的沼澤、濕地、泥塘或池塘，尤指作為海灣、水灣或死水的一部分

From being a little-visited Bohemian backwater, it became the glittering jewel in the central European crown.

布拉格已經(jīng)從鮮有人問津的波西米亞腐水塘，變成中歐皇冠上閃亮的珠寶。