柯林斯詞典backwater /?b?k?w??t?/ (backwaters) 1. N-COUNT A backwater is a place that is isolated. 荒僻處 ...a quiet rural backwater. …一處寧靜的鄉(xiāng)下偏僻之地。2. N-COUNT 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. 閉塞落后的地方[表不滿] The state's high schools remain an educational backwater where dropout rates are rising. 該州的高中仍舊是教育封閉落后之所，輟學率在上升。 This agency will be relegated to the backwaters of Washington. 這個機構(gòu)將被移到華盛頓閉塞落后的地方。 返回 backwater劍橋詞典a part of a river where the water does not flow 回水，滯水 We tied the boat up in a quiet backwater overnight . 我們在一個靜寂的回水處把船系好過夜。 disapproving a place that does not change because it is not influenced by new ideas or events that happen in other places 死氣沉沉的地方；閉塞的地方 He grew up in a rural backwater. 他在閉塞落后的鄉(xiāng)村長大。 比較jerkwater 返回 backwater