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backwater n.回水；回水河汊；穷乡僻壤 (1) 有些人在回水河汊玩水球。(2) 在这村庄没有任何一间好的商店，真的是闭塞落后的地方。(3) 我觉得这个城镇太闭塞。 The word backwater has been around since the 14th Century meaning “water behind a dam.” Now it refers to any flat water, not just the water behind a dam. Backwater can also describe a place or situation that seems stuck in a rut, unmoved by current events. Literally, backwater is water that’s away from the current; figuratively, backwater is a place that’s away from current events.

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英 ['bækwɔːtə(r)] 美 ['bækwɔːtər] (1) Some were playing water-polo in the backwater.(2) There aren't any good shops in this village, it's a real backwater.(3) I find this town too much of a backwater. Backwater is water that’s stagnant and out of the current. It’s a still pool created by a dam or a curve in the river. If a small town is described as backwater, then not much happens or changes there. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]闭塞的地方；与世隔绝的地方 A backwater is a place that is isolated.   [usu with supp]...a quiet rural backwater.僻静的乡村2[N-COUNT 可数名词]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.   [usu with supp]  [disapproval]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。Quebec remained a backwater until the 1960s.魁北克直到20世纪60年代还是一片死气沉沉。

英语单词	backwater
英美音标	英 ['bækwɔːtə(r)] 美 ['bækwɔːtər]
中文释义	n.回水；回水河汊；穷乡僻壤
英语例句	(1) Some were playing water-polo in the backwater. (2) There aren't any good shops in this village, it's a real backwater. (3) I find this town too much of a backwater.
中文例句	(1) 有些人在回水河汊玩水球。 (2) 在这村庄没有任何一间好的商店，真的是闭塞落后的地方。 (3) 我觉得这个城镇太闭塞。
vocabulary简明	Backwater is water that’s stagnant and out of the current. It’s a still pool created by a dam or a curve in the river. If a small town is described as backwater, then not much happens or changes there.
vocabulary扩展	The word backwater has been around since the 14th Century meaning “water behind a dam.” Now it refers to any flat water, not just the water behind a dam. Backwater can also describe a place or situation that seems stuck in a rut, unmoved by current events. Literally, backwater is water that’s away from the current; figuratively, backwater is a place that’s away from current events.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]闭塞的地方；与世隔绝的地方 A backwater is a place that is isolated. [usu with supp] ...a quiet rural backwater. 僻静的乡村 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]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. [usu with supp] [disapproval] 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。 Quebec remained a backwater until the 1960s. 魁北克直到20世纪60年代还是一片死气沉沉。

Backwater Place Water That’s Town Current Events N Count