backwater

backwater

美 [ˈbækˌwɔtər] 　英 [ˈbækˌwɔːtə(r)]

• n.回水；与世隔绝的地区；落后地区
• v.倒划；〈美口〉放弃原来的立场；食言
• 网络死水；回水处；回水河汊

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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，让伊拉克脱离科学停滞状态的竞赛已经开始，持续二十年的战争、联合国的制裁和独裁造成了这种停滞。

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

从新奥尔良的混乱的中心不到一个小时的路程有一个原始的被称为蜂蜜岛沼泽的“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.

对乌拉尔的乡村地区的一些俄罗斯人来说，最近看到一车车中国军队路过是相当令人震惊的。

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

穿过商业区那些比较尘嚣的部分向伦敦最僻静的街道走来时，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，这时，他把头轻轻一扬，示意鼹鼠向回水湾划去。

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，这个舒适的港口城市今天陷入停滞的状态。

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

一个世纪以前，你只是扬子江上的一个小河港，一个中国中南部的闭塞之地，有一个略显不同的名字，重庆。

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软泥区的木桩结构之上，威尼斯在千年后崛起成为一个拥有耀眼权力的城邦。

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

建桥后，由于桥位断面压缩而导致的壅水与一般冲积河流不同。

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

水箱的回水口经第二阀门与压力容器的浓水出口直接相通；

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

但是，经常被评论人士称之为文化荒漠的新加坡此番取得的进步是否足够创造出一个蓬勃发展的艺术氛围呢？

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

小河明白与河岸相恋，便会变成一潭死水。于是他一路欢歌，去追求博大宽容的大海。

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

逆流，回水：被或似乎被水坝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.

我是一家大型媒体公司的部门主管，而这个部门犹如一潭死水。

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

二十世纪40年代当德鲁克首次转而关注此学科时它还是一潭死水。

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

90年代中期以来，这一瓶颈问题愈发突出，运河亟需扩建疏导，否则将变成死水。

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

AGOBAY已不再是平静的海湾，今天它的周围是蓬勃发展的旅游业和居民区。

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

几十年来，这项业务一直是大宗商品市场的死角，由小型独立运营商占主导地位。

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

过去二十年里，以色列从一个一潭死水的半社会主义国家，已经转变成为一支高科技的超级力量。

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

二十世纪的大部分时间里，中美洲的小国家闭关锁国，是独裁者与冒险家的热带游乐场。

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

然后与右回水孔流来的水汇合，顺着蜗壳流动。

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

不过，在布什总统当政的大部分岁月里，财政部不过是死水一潭。

Transport has been a political backwater for years.

交通问题很多年来一直是英国政治上的一滩死水。

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

鼹鼠默默地划着船，不一会，他们来到了一处河道分岔的地方，一股长长的回水向一旁分流出去。

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

听着！我呆在这个回水管可不是为了做生意

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，壅锄拔草，一道道工序，引出一个个企盼的眼神。

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

埃及于去阿拉伯年庆祝阿拉伯电影业已经100年的历史，而联合大公国曾是一处止水，直到70年代才因石油产业声名大噪。

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

卢德镇坐落于以色列商业中心特拉维夫附近，不久前，这儿还只是个闭塞落后的穷乡僻壤。

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滩死水，随着时代的变化，文化也在不断地发展，不断地变迁。

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

今天，精神病治疗已经恢复，但心理健康在医学上却是一潭死水，停滞不前，资金、从业者和职业受尊重度都极度缺乏。

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

如果政策制定者们对大宗商品交易放任不管，这一昔日的回水可能有朝一日会变成经济的麻烦之海。

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

在东部落后地区的埃尔祖鲁姆（Erzurum），可以看到女孩和男孩携手悠闲地散步，因为直到最近，他们或许已被鞭打过了。

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

《颤栗》时期的音乐视频帮助MTV从落伍转向轰动的境况。

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

他的墓吸引了众多游客争相来到这个闭塞的以色列小镇拉姆勒。

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

在沙漠行星塔图因，卢克在伯伯的湿地农场里辛勤劳作，渡过了忙碌的童年。

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

很多人虽然没有这么激进，但他们觉得，在当今这个失衡的世界里，保护本国财富和文化不受外来事物影响没有什么不好。

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

气候研究院是悉尼的一家调研机构，该院院长约翰•康纳表示，澳大利亚现在冒着“碳闭塞”的危险。

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

该合资企业要求这两个公司探索喀拉海（KaraSea）的三个部分，喀拉海位于中俄罗斯的北部，是一个冰封的沿海的闭塞地区。

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

也作slue停滞的水域，泥泞的沼泽：浑浊的沼泽、湿地、泥塘或池塘，尤指作为海湾、水湾或死水的一部分

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

布拉格已经从鲜有人问津的波西米亚腐水塘，变成中欧皇冠上闪亮的珠宝。