- n. (被阻退回的)回水，回流；逆流；循環(huán)水，再用水；死水，滯水；〔比喻〕停滯；文化落后的地方(live in a backwater 蟄居鄉(xiāng)間)。
2.vt. 倒劃，倒開船；〔美口〕放棄原來的立場(chǎng)；食言。
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backwater中文什么意思
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- I find this town too much of a backwater .
我覺得這個(gè)城鎮(zhèn)太閉塞。 - The backwater recirculates .
回水是反復(fù)循環(huán)。 - Life in a backwater of southern russia has begun to grow weary for the moscow-educated couple .
死氣沉沉的俄國(guó)南部生活一定使這對(duì)在莫斯科受過高等教育的夫婦感到厭煩。 - We still skim the backwaters of ponds and streams for the seed of betula, acer salix and populus species .
我們?nèi)匀灰诔靥恋撵o水上和溪流中撈取樺木，槭樹、楊、柳等樹的種子。 - Passing the more feverish parts of the city toward the most perfect backwater in london, he ruminated .
穿過商業(yè)區(qū)那些比較塵囂的部分向倫敦最僻靜的街道走來時(shí)，他不禁感慨系之。
英文釋義
名詞- a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring; "the country is an economic backwater"
- a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam; "the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos"