| 单词 | backwater |
| 释义 | backwater (bækwɔːtəʳ ) Word forms: backwaters 1. countable noun A backwater is a place that is isolated. ...a quiet rural backwater. Synonyms: isolated place, backwoods, remote place, sleepy town 2. countable noun 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. [disapproval] Britain could become a political backwater with no serious influence in the world. This agency will be relegated to the backwaters of Washington. Collocations: sleepy backwater It appears to have changed from the sleepy backwater of 1968 into a place for the super-rich and yacht-owners. Times, Sunday Times Of late, there has been a little excitement in this sleepy backwater. Times, Sunday Times A graffito on a low wall reminds us that everywhere, even in this sleepy backwater, people have been pushed towards extremes. The Times Literary Supplement The then minister of tourism had asked him to consider developing the sleepy backwater. Times, Sunday Times The town at that point was a sleepy backwater; electricity was only delivered in 1936. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 荒僻处 Japanese: 孤立した場所 |
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