backwater
n. 回水,迴流; 滯水,死水; 閉塞的地方; 不受外界事件或新思想影響的地方
A backwater is a place that is isolated.
...a quiet rural backwater.
僻靜的鄉村
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...
英國有變成在世界上沒有真正影響力的政治死水之虞。
This agency will be relegated to the backwaters of Washington...
這個機構將淪落為華盛頓閉塞落後之地。
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. 又是一個衣著光鮮的冒險者, 來拯救我們這些回水站的蠢貨了.
Cooling system of tool with backwater tank, filter, pump and installation until the adjacencies of spindle.
配有揹負式水箱 、 過濾 、 水泵等直達主軸端部的冷卻系統.
Its origins lie in the credit markets, coverage of which in most news organizations a backwater.
其發源地在於信貸市場, 而多數新聞機構將對這一領域的報道視為死水區.
The backwater surface profile of Chongqing section ends at Jiangjin after of the Three Gorges Reservoir.
三峽水庫成庫後,重慶河段回水曲線受庫區水位影響,至江津才尖滅.
Muscle is a backwater!
肌肉只是個冷門!