The U.S. was still scientifically total backwater in the 1800s.

在19世纪，美国科学还是死水一潭。

They look down upon those who live in intellectual backwater.

他们瞧不起智力处于停滞状态人。

Until the 1980s Qatar was little more than a sandy backwater.

在九十年代之前，卡塔尔基本上只能说是一片落后多沙地带。

It's a crime! Squandering a talent like yours in this backwater.

哪里好了！以身手呆在这里也太浪费了.

The restless Gauguin had already sought escape in the quiet backwaters of France and Martinique.

在法国和马提尼克死水里 不安歇高更都曾寻求逃离。

We're a backwater here but, heaven knows, we've our share of diabetes.

我们这里虽是小地方，但是天知道，也还是有不少糖尿病人。

The village road ended in the shallow of the aforesaid backwater.

村道止于上述回水浅处。

The one that tried to slap you, from the backwater bayou, that Southern ghetto trash.

想要扇嘴巴女孩，来自偏远小镇，南部贫民区垃圾。

Just like the shopping mall, takeout foods have invaded even the smallest backwater towns.

就像大型商场一样，外卖食品也渗透到了那些最小偏远城镇。

Before the 5th century AD, the lagoon itself was a relatively isolated and swampy backwater of the Roman Empire.

在公元 5 世纪之前，泻湖本身是罗马帝国相对孤立死水。

Allen, the museum's founder, widely credited with putting Lamu on the cultural map when it was a hidden backwater, is unmentioned.

博物馆创始人艾伦被广泛认为是在拉穆还是一个隐蔽死水区时将其列入文化版图功臣，但他并未被提及。

To predict that a European backwater would lead the world into the most transformative economic epoch in history would have seemed like madness.

要预测欧洲停滞不前状态将引领世界走向历史上最具变革性经济时代似乎很疯狂。

The city loathes its reputation as a cultural backwater and is keen to challenge New York and London in the world of art.

这座城市讨厌被人称为文化上矮子，并强烈渴望在艺术界挑战纽约和伦敦地位。

Mendel was born in 1822 to a humble farming family in a backwater of the Austrian empire in what is now the Czech Republic.

孟德尔1822年出生于奥地利帝国一个偏僻小镇（现属捷克共和国）一个贫苦农民家庭。

Now, for a long time, antitrust was kind of this sleepy policy backwater.

现在，很长一段时间以来，反垄断政策一直是一种令人昏昏欲睡死水。

In 17 years, what has happened is, we have gone from global health being totally a backwater study, to a new vision of global health actually being funded.

在17年时间里，我们已经从一个完全停滞不前全球卫生研究，转变为一个新全球卫生愿景，也实际上得到了资助。

Western Europe, by contrast, when Liu Tingxun died in 728 and our tomb figures were created, was a remote and underdeveloped backwater, an unstable patchwork of small kingdoms and precarious urban communities.

在刘廷苟去世、墓葬俑完工728年，西欧还是由许多小国与城邦拼凑在一起、政局混乱、岌岌可危落后之地。

Charlotte was a princess from a relative backwater, but that didn't stop her from marrying Britain's King George the Third, the guy who most Americans know for losing to America.

夏洛特是一个来自相对落后地区公主，但这并没有阻止她嫁给英国国王乔治三世，大多数美国人都知道他输给了美国。

In a few years it goes from a quiet backwater to a city district. Which obviously doesn't make Patrick more competent when it comes to opening windows or assembling IKEA wardrobes.

几年内，这里从近郊变成了市区。众所周知，帕特里克在破墙开窗家具组装等方面能力有限。

He did not know how he had come there, but he knew what his aim was, because he had carried it hidden since infancy in an inviolable backwater of his heart.

他不知道他是怎么来到那里，但他知道他目标是什么， 因为他从婴儿时期就把它藏在他心中不可侵犯死水里。