backwater
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
A backwater is a place that is isolated.
...a quiet rural backwater.
僻静的乡村
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.
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。
1. a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam;
2. any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress
BURP . Arrggh. Another fancy pants adventurer, come to save us backwater fools.
嗝,呃啊啊. 又是一个衣着光鲜的冒险者, 来拯救我们这些回水站的蠢货了.
Cooling system of tool with backwater tank, filter, pump and installation until the adjacencies of spindle.
配有背负式水箱 、 过滤 、 水泵等直达主轴端部的冷却系统.
Its origins lie in the credit markets, coverage of which in most news organizations a backwater.
其发源地在于信贷市场, 而多数新闻机构将对这一领域的报道视为死水区.
The backwater surface profile of Chongqing section ends at Jiangjin after of the Three Gorges Reservoir.
三峡水库成库后,重庆河段回水曲线受库区水位影响,至江津才尖灭.
Muscle is a backwater!
肌肉只是个冷门!