back room

基本解釋

By the third game he insisted on retreating to a tiny back room, where he could think.
到了第三場對局，他堅持比賽要在幕后的一個狹小的房間里進行，因為在那里他才能夠思考。
An entire genre of television reality shows has grown up to supply ideas for turning that pokey back room into a place of cherry wood cabinets, polished granite and brushed aluminium.
一整套的電視真人秀已經(jīng)成熟起來，向人們提供種種思路，將狹小的密室改造成一個滿眼櫻木櫥柜、磨光花崗石和錚亮鋁合金的世界。
Redemption came, most notably in Brown v Board of Education, and Mr Feldman gives a compelling account of the back room dealings in the case.
補救的時候到了，大部分最著名的修正都反映在布朗訴教育局案中。弗爾德曼對該案背后的交易做了扣人心弦的敘述。

Millions of radio listeners heard a voice from the Cape Canaveral control room say: "This is it,Alan Shepard,there's no turning back.
But then suddenly they get yanked back, and they wake up, you know, in the hospital room.
但是突然他們被猛拽回來,然后他們在病房里,醒了過來
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選
But all of you in this room probably remember what we technically call the base 10 system or decimal system because back in grade school or the like, you learned to count and add and subtract numbers by way of columns.
但是，在座的每一位可能都記得,這在小學的時候?qū)W的,以10為進制的系統(tǒng)或者十進制系統(tǒng),通過數(shù)列方式學習數(shù)數(shù)和加減法。
哈佛公開課 - 計算機科學課程節(jié)選

You might have a great product but you built it in the back room.
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A backroom is a room that is situated at the back of a building, especially a private room.
You can use backroom to refer to people in an organization who do important work but are not seen or known about by the public. You can also use backroom to refer to a place where such people work.
If you refer to a deal made by someone such as a politician as a backroom deal, you disapprove of it because it has been made in a secret, dishonest way.