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backwater是什么意思

backwater

英[ˈbækwɔ:tə(r)] 美[ˈbækˌwɔtɚ, -ˌwɑtɚ]

n. 回水，回流，滞水，死水，闭塞的地方，不受外界事件或新思想影响的地方；

复数：backwaters;

相关单词 backwaters

同义词

backwater的同义词之：
provincial

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

闭塞的地方；与世隔绝的地方

A backwater is a place that is isolated.
例句
...a quiet rural backwater. 僻静的乡村
N-COUNT

停滞（或落后）的地方；一潭死水

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.
例句
Britain could become a political backwater with no serious influence in the world... 英国有变成在世界上没有真正影响力的政治死水之虞。 This agency will be relegated to the backwaters of Washington... 这个机构将沦落为华盛顿闭塞落后之地。

英英词典释义

Noun
1. 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"
2. any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress

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