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backwater ['bæk`wɔtɚ]

n. 死水, 滞水, 停滞, 回水

I find this town too much of a backwater.
我觉得这个城镇太闭塞.
I live in a backwater in this small village.
我住在这小村庄的闭塞落后的地方。
There aren't any good shops in this village; it's just a backwater.
这个村庄没有什么好店铺，简直是穷乡僻壤。

backwater

[ noun ]

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

<noun.object>

the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos

a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring

<noun.location>

the country is an economic backwater

Backwater \Back"wa`ter\, n. [Back, a. or adv. + -water. ]
1. Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an
opposing current, or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer
or river channel, or across a river bar.

2. An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused
by an obstruction.

3. Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by
the paddle wheels of a steamer.

It was a sleepy backwater, the Middle East in the early years of this century.
It sprang, perhaps, from his upbringing in Ferriday, a backwater town in northern Louisiana's Bible belt.
Chile, a protectionist backwater in the early 1970s, now has a dynamic and open export-capable economy.
For many bass, however, time to migrate to the main river comes when the backwater gets warm and stagnant.
Near Alexandria, La., 56 residents in Rapides Parish were evacuated by Wednesday night as officials warned of backwater flooding.
So the fundamental reason for the quarrel between Britain and Ireland is now gone." A backwater 20 years ago, Northern Ireland now has air links to European resorts.
"He was a street vendor" in a hot, backwater province until he saved enough to buy the store, Menem said.
But it was still running high and the backwater was the only spot tranquil enough for my float. Using an elderly carp rod and an antique centrepin reel, I lobbed float and sprat towards the willow tree on the far side.
At the time, insiders privately expressed shock that Digital had found its new financial chief in a backwater division of smokestack industry.
In the past decade, but mostly in the past five years, it has been transformed from a rural Southern backwater to a sea of office parks and more than 450 subdivisions.
High water expected to cause flooding only in low-lying areas. Major flooding will come only from backwater flooding if heavy rains develop.
Once rich through trade in slaves for America, palm oil and fish, the Kalabaris' marshy delta lands are now literally a backwater, Barley says.
Trading in the currency used to be "a backwater," acknowledges Prof.
But, as often as not every four years, this small New England backwater sends a message to those who would lead the United States.
A previously quiet backwater of pensions management was swamped by a wave of interest. Suddenly, a parliamentary committee was probing the arcane world of pension fund security and asset administration.
The blood products sector used to be a quiet backwater of the healthcare business.
'In one state,' Mr Clinton said in Georgia, 'he says I'm too liberal, in another state he says I'm a backwater redneck.' Mr Bush said yesterday: 'I have never accused him of being a redneck, I've just said he has a sorry record in Arkansas.'
They say that without assured access to the U.S. market, Canada risks becoming an isolated backwater of international trade.
During the Reagan years, the council was a sleepy backwater, seldom consulted, usually ignored.
And the result could be that in 20 years the country will turn into "an economic backwater, similar to Burma today," Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., added in a floor speech.
"I've been a part of the system," says 41-year-old German Jimenez, a teacher and former PRI congressman from the backwater southern state of Chiapas.

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