back water

柯林斯詞典

1. N-COUNT A backwater is a place that is isolated. 荒僻處
...a quiet rural backwater. …一處寧靜的鄉(xiāng)下偏僻之地。
2. N-COUNT 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. 閉塞落后的地方[表不滿]
The state's high schools remain an educational backwater where dropout rates are rising. 該州的高中仍舊是教育封閉落后之所，輟學(xué)率在上升。
This agency will be relegated to the backwaters of Washington. 這個(gè)機(jī)構(gòu)將被移到華盛頓閉塞落后的地方。