单词backwater
n.: 回水；与世隔绝的地区；落后地区
v.: 倒划；〈美口〉放弃原来的立场；食言
网络: 死水；回水处；回水河汊
（河流的）滞水，壅水，回水:
a part of a river away from the main part, where the water only moves slowly
与世隔绝的地区；落后地区:
a place that is away from the places where most things happen, and is therefore not affected by events, progress, new ideas, etc.
倒划,倒开船;〔美口〕放弃原来的立场;食言
反浪
死气沉沉的状态
雍水
拦截的水
巷道隔墙背后的水
壅水
(被阻退回的)回水,回流;逆流;循环水,再用水;死水,滞水;〔比喻〕停滞;文化落后的地方
复数：backwaters
n.backwoodssticksthe back of beyondboondocksthe middle of nowhere
The race is now on to pull Iraq out of the scientific backwater it has become through two decades of war, UN sanctions and dictatorship.
如今，让伊拉克脱离科学停滞状态的竞赛已经开始，持续二十年的战争、联合国的制裁和独裁造成了这种停滞。
Less than an hour away from the chaotic heart of New Orleans lays a primordial backwater morass known as the Honey Island Swamp.
从新奥尔良的混乱的中心不到一个小时的路程有一个原始的被称为蜂蜜岛沼泽的“回水泥沼”。
It was quite a shock for some Russians in a rural backwater of the Urals recently to see lorry-loads of Chinese troops go by.
对乌拉尔的乡村地区的一些俄罗斯人来说，最近看到一车车中国军队路过是相当令人震惊的。
Passing the more feverish parts of the City toward the most perfect backwater in London, he ruminated.
穿过商业区那些比较尘嚣的部分向伦敦最僻静的街道走来时，他不禁感慨系之。
With a slight movement of his head Rat, who had long dropped the rudder-lines, directed the rower to take the backwater.
河鼠早就放下了舵，这时，他把头轻轻一扬，示意鼹鼠向回水湾划去。
Yet this pleasant port-city today feels something of a backwater, cut off by mountains and winding roads from the rest of Kyushu.
然而受高山和蜿蜒的道路所阻，这个舒适的港口城市今天陷入停滞的状态。
A century ago, you were but a minor port on the Yangtze, a backwater of south-central China with a slightly different name, Chungking.
一个世纪以前，你只是扬子江上的一个小河港，一个中国中南部的闭塞之地，有一个略显不同的名字，重庆。
Jabba transplanted Desilijic operations from Nal Hutta to Tatooine, a backwater desert planet he began to think of as home.
贾巴将德西利吉克的业务从纳尔赫塔转移到穷困的沙漠星球塔图因，并开始以此为家。
Built on wooden pilings sunk in the ooze of a backwater lagoon, Venice rose over a millennium to become a city-state of dazzling power.
建立在立于死水礁湖软泥区的木桩结构之上，威尼斯在千年后崛起成为一个拥有耀眼权力的城邦。
Its backwater, due to bridge constrictions , is different from that of alluvial channels.
建桥后，由于桥位断面压缩而导致的壅水与一般冲积河流不同。