英语释义

• any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress

• a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam;

  "the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos"

片语

Backwater Blues悲伤逆流而上

backwater area回水区

backwater surface回水面

Backwater Gulch死水峡谷

backwater trip搭乘椰林游河

backwater function回水函数

backwater tour回水泛舟

dead water死水；船舷侧旋涡

standing water死水

英汉例句

• around the bend, you reach a full squad of dominion marines standing guard around another dominion holoboard in the center of backwater station (5). (some vikings fly overhead as well.

  在拐角处，你看见了一队自治联盟陆战队驻守在回水基地的中心，临近一座全像仪。 （位置5）。 （有些维京战机在头顶上飞。

• around the bend, you reach a full squad of dominion marines standing guard around another dominion holoboard in the center of backwater station (5).

  在拐角处，你看见了一队自治联盟陆战队驻守在回水基地的中心，临近一座全像仪。 （位置5）。

• you start with jim raynor and five marines in the southwest corner of the map (1) on the outskirts of the backwater station mining operation.

  你开始时拥有吉姆·雷诺和五名陆战队，处于地图的西南角（位置1），回水基地的市郊。

• these ever-accelerating changes have transformed china from a communist backwater to the world「s fourth-largest economy.

  几十年来中国社会发生了翻天覆地的变化，曾经的一潭死水如今已跃升为全球第四大经济体。

• for decades, kosice, a city of 250, 000 in eastern slovakia, was considered an industrial backwater — if it was considered at all.

  几十年了，这个斯洛伐克东部居住着二十五万人口的科希策市，如果还有人能想得起来，也不过是个死水一潭的工业城市。

• today the backwater has turned into niagara falls.

  在今天，那过去的一潭死水已蜕变为尼亚加拉瀑布。

• when he was assigned to lead toyota」s chinese operations in 2001, china was still a backwater in toyota「s global strategy.

  他于2001年被指派负责丰田的中国业务时，在公司的全球战略中，中国还是一片蛮荒之地。

• a new fish landing center in one district is being built on a backwater because the villagers who saw 2,500 of their people die in the tsunami didn’t want to 「turn their backs on the sea.」

  有一个省正在一个回水区兴建一座渔港，因为亲眼目睹了2500位乡亲在海啸中死去的村民们并不想因此而远离大海。

• pearl buck’s understanding of the country was built on years of patient observation, living in backwater cities and befriending students, housewives, servants and farmers.

  赛珍珠对这个国家的理解是基于多年耐心的观察，她住到落后的城市里，与学生、家庭主妇、佣人和农民交朋友。

• ten years ago sweetwater was a dusty backwater best known for having the world’s largest rattlesnake round-up (see article).

  十年前，甘水镇是一个灰尘乱飞的穷乡僻壤，以世界上最大的响尾蛇聚集地而着称。

• southerners whisper that no one would show up if parliament were based in a backwater such as manchester.

  南方人说，如果议会在诸如闭塞的曼彻斯特开会，将没有一个人到场。

• why on earth would the highest instance of executive power in the world」s most populous nation have anything to do with an inconsequential backwater in the middle of france?

  为什么拥有世界上最多人口的国家的最高行政力量会与一个法国中部无关紧要的穷乡僻壤有任何关系？

• in the trade arena alone, taipei would be an economic backwater if it were not thoroughly linked into the dense web of global institutions that support international commerce.

  仅在贸易领域，如果台北不是完全交织在支持国际商务的国际机构的密集网络中，台湾会是经济死水一潭。

• rafah long languished as a provincial backwater in the claustrophobic gaza strip, a clannish and rural hinterland to gaza city’s bustling and cosmopolitan downtown.

  在环境幽闭的加沙地带，拉法是一个主要的落后地区，从而其长期停滞不前。

相似词

provincial粗野的人；乡下人；外地人