柯林斯英汉双解大词典
backwater /ˈbækˌwɔːtə/ TEM8
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N-COUNT A backwater is a place that is isolated. 荒僻处
例：...a quiet rural backwater.
…一处宁静的乡下偏僻之地。
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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. 闭塞落后的地方 [表不满]
例：The state's high schools remain an educational backwater where dropout rates are rising.
该州的高中仍旧是教育封闭落后之所，辍学率在上升。
例：This agency will be relegated to the backwaters of Washington.
这个机构将被移到华盛顿闭塞落后的地方。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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Water dripped into a basin at the back of the room.
水滴入房间后面的一个盆里。
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I'm going to get some water. I'll be right back.
我去拿些水，马上就回来。
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The frog plopped back into the water.
青蛙扑通一声跳回水中。
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It shows bloody images of fisherman cutting the fins off dead sharks then throwing them back in the water.
VOA: special.2009.04.03
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You've got to pretty much take that chalk, and make a slurry out of it, put water, and dry it back up, put in a mold, and then you can have the chalk again, but you can't just glue it back together.
你得尽可能地收集它的碎片，把它做成粉浆，加水然后风干，放进模具，然后你就能重新得到这支粉笔，但是你不能简单地把它粘起来。
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and getting back to balancing the elements in our lives, very basically like Earth, water, fire.
回归生命中元素的平衡，基本上就是土、水、火。
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