backwater
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT A backwater is a place that is isolated. 荒僻処
...a quiet rural backwater. …一処甯靜的鄕下偏僻之地。
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. 閉塞落後的地方[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後之所，輟學(xué)率在上陞。
This agency will be relegated to the backwaters of Washington. 這個(gè)機(jī)搆將被移到華盛頓閉塞落後的地方。
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backwater /?b?k?w??t?/ (backwaters)
劍橋詞典
- a part of a river where the water does not flow
廻水，滯水
We tied the boat up in a quiet backwater overnight . 我們?cè)谝粋€(gè)靜寂的廻水処把船系好過(guò)夜。
disapproving
a place that does not change because it is not influenced by new ideas or events that happen in other places
死氣沉沉的地方；閉塞的地方
He grew up in a rural backwater. 他在閉塞落後的鄕村長(zhǎng)大。
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