backwater
US /ˈbækˌwɔtɚ, -ˌwɑtɚ/
・UK /'bækwɔ:tə(r)/
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n. (c./u.)名詞 (可數/不可數)死水 ； 滯水 ； 停滯 ； 回水
Jeff came from a sleepy backwater town along the Mississippi
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桃金娘海灘度假旅遊指南 - Expedia (Myrtle Beach Vacation Travel Guide | Expedia)
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- Sandwiched between the Atlantic rollers and the calm waters of the Intracoastal Waterway, Myrtle Beach has grown from a rural backwater into a city, which attracts millions of visitors annually, many of whom return year after year.
美特爾海灘位在大西洋勁浪以及波平浪靜的內陸航道之間，美特爾海灘從原本的偏僻靜水處，搖身一變成為每年吸引百萬遊客的觀光城市，人們也年復一年重返此處，樂此不疲。
一戰的爆發--歐洲如何陷入大戰--第一週。 (The Outbreak of WWI - How Europe Spiraled Into the GREAT WAR - Week 1)
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- Although we think of pre-war Russia today as a backwater,
雖然現在很多人認為 戰前的俄羅斯沒有啥動靜，
你能在古羅馬生存一週嗎？| 瑪麗-比爾德：訪談全文 (Would you survive a week in Ancient Rome? | Mary Beard: Full Interview)
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- Recent work on Roman skeletons and really analysing all the traces you can find in a skeleton of where people have come from, suggests that as many as 20 percent of people in Roman towns in Britain, and Britain was a backwater in the Roman Empire, 20 percent of people came probably from overseas or at least far away.
最近對羅馬人骨骼的研究，以及對骨骼中可以找到的人們來自哪裡的所有痕跡的分析表明，在不列顛的羅馬城鎮中，有多達 20% 的人來自海外，而不列顛在羅馬帝國中是一個落後地區，20% 的人可能來自海外或至少很遠的地方。
- I always find it rather touching that you see on the walls painted, on the walls of houses in Pompeii, which was also a bit of a backwater in the Roman Empire.
我總覺得，在龐貝古城的房屋牆壁上看到的彩繪令人感動，而龐貝古城在羅馬帝國時期也是一個偏僻的地方。
決定下個世紀的科技對決！丹・王與柯梅爾・佛斯特 (The techno-rivalry that will decide the next century | Dan Wang and Kmele Foster)
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- This is a kind of a backwater, economic backwater of China back then.
那個時候的中國，那裡算是個經濟上的邊陲地帶。
- And even now it is a giant backwater where not too much goes on.
即使是現在，那裡仍然是一個沒什麼發展的巨大邊陲地帶。
如何減少恐慌 (How to Panic a Little Less)
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- backwater of the universe, basking for an instant or two in the light of a dying star.
宇宙的後方，在一顆垂死的恆星的光亮中沐浴了一兩個瞬間。
羅恩-切爾諾（全集） | 柯南-奧布萊恩需要一位朋友 (Ron Chernow (FULL EPISODE) | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend)
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- You know small-town backwater and he has all the prejudices, you know
你知道，小城鎮是個窮鄉僻壤，他有所有的偏見，你知道
- This man and she really because he'd come from this little, you know backwater town
這個男人和她真的是因為他來自這個你知道的偏僻小鎮
【看影集學英文】回顧《荒唐分局》超爆笑片段！(Brooklyn 99 moments that were NOT scripted | Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
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- I'm the one who had to come to this backwater stinkhole.
是我非要來這個窮鄉僻壤的臭地方。
世界上隔離程度最高的地鐵為何存在 (Why The World's Most Segregated Metro Exists)
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- This whole area between the Amir and Ussuri rivers in the south and the settled border in the north, all under the Qing's administration, came to be called by them as Outer Manchuria, and it basically remained a sparsely populated backwater of their empire with not much really going on for the next one and a half centuries.
從南邊的阿米爾河和烏蘇里江到北邊的定居邊界之間的整個地區，都在清朝的管理之下，被清朝稱為外滿洲，在接下來的一個半世紀裡，這裡基本上一直是清朝帝國人口稀少的窮鄉僻壤，沒有發生過什麼大事。
- As the rest of the 19th century progressed, a gold rush in the area led to a surge in settlers from the European side of the Russian Empire that was encouraged by the Tsarist authorities to populate their side of the border with Slavs, which led to Blagoveshchensk population soaring from practically nothing in 1850 to around 40,000 people just by the end of the century, while the Chinese side remained a sparsely populated backwater.
在 19 世紀的餘下時間裡，該地區的淘金熱導致沙皇當局鼓勵俄羅斯帝國歐洲一側的斯拉夫人在其邊境地區定居，這使得布拉戈維申斯克的人口從 1850 年的幾乎為零飆升到本世紀末的約 4 萬人，而中國一側仍然是人煙稀少的窮鄉僻壤。