backwater是什么意思

音标:英 ['bækwɔ:tə(r)]美 [ˈbækˌwɔtɚ, -ˌwɑtɚ]

死水, 滞水, 停滞, 回水

a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam
a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring

backwater的用法和例句：

1. No, that's a deep backwater of the law.

不可能 那个案子早沉在案例池底了

2. I am no backwater magistrate cowering in fear of you.

但我不是那种因害怕你就畏缩食言的人

3. You grew up in this backwater, it didn't do you much harm.

你就是在这穷乡辟岭长大的 也没什么坏处啊

4. I worry about her wasting away in this backwater.

我不想让她在这穷乡辟岭虚度时光

5. And I use that word advisedly, in this backwater.

科学家 我再三考虑 才称他为科学家

6. With her at the helm, they'd still be a shitty backwater.

有她领导 他们肯定还是一潭死水

7. More big city, really, than backwater bordello.

相比荒僻的妓院 我更喜欢大城市

8. ...some backwater, where they would never find appropriate suitors.

像死水一样的 没法让她们找到合适求婚者的地方

9. You're a civil servant in a cornbelt, biblebanging backwater.

你是美国中西部一个封闭小镇里 忠于圣经的公务员

10. There were rumors that they were hiding out in the backwaters of the solar system.

有传言说他们躲在太阳系 一些荒无人烟的地方