第三人称复数：backwaters
名词回水，回流; 滞水，死水; 闭塞的地方; 不受外界事件或新思想影响的地方
动词倒开船; 食言
backwater
1. 回水：为什么这明明是些小河小溪,当地人却不肯称其为河,偏偏要将它们称做回水(backwater)呢?原来,距这些河流不远处就是波涛汹涌的印度洋,河水与海水相距最近处不过十几米. 在小河与大洋之间的并不是横亘的山脉陡崖,通常不过是区区一两米高的沙丘.
2. 死水：然后卡拉拉(Kerala)的死水(backwater)是和泰姬陵齐名的世界50个必须要去的地方,而我们打算在租一条房船(houseboat)在这个著名的水域上度过一晚,尽情欣赏这热带美景,因此看点之二是究竟什么成就了卡拉拉死水之美.
3. 死水,死气沉沉的地方：Antichoice 反堕胎 | Backwater 死水,死气沉沉的地方 | Intercom 对讲机,闭路通讯装置
4. 循环水：backwater trap 回水存水弯 | backwater 循环水 | backway 后退距离
1. 闭塞的地方；与世隔绝的地方
A backwater is a place that is isolated.
e.g. ...a quiet rural backwater.
僻静的乡村
2. 停滞（或落后）的地方；一潭死水
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.
e.g. Britain could become a political backwater with no serious influence in the world...
英国有变成在世界上没有真正影响力的政治死水之虞。
e.g. This agency will be relegated to the backwaters of Washington...
这个机构将沦落为华盛顿闭塞落后之地。
1. Today, corrective surgery is ubiquitous from modern Chinese cities to backwater rural towns.
2. Jiujiang may not be the bustling port city that is has been for centuries but it is certainly no backwater either.
3. But psychiatry is still a medical backwater and there are insufficient mental health professionals in the country.
backwater的近义词
noun
1. a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring
e.g. the country is an economic backwater
2. a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam
e.g. the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos