10.But as Geoff White, a bbc journalist, explains in his rollicking new book, that backwardness has helped make a handful of North Koreans very technologically savvy indeed.
但正如 BBC 记者杰夫·怀特 (Geoff White) 在他欢快新书中所解释那样,确实帮助少数朝鲜人变得非常精通技术。机翻
11.And no we can't think of a better metaphor for the backwardness of gender relations in this era than an intelligent woman literally being killed by an underqualified and overconfident man.
12.The fact that the feud took place in this one part of the country sort of added to people's ideas about its backwardness, how it wasn't as modern as the rest of the country.
13.While mountains have often kept the people living in them mired in poverty and backwardness, these mountains have at the same time often brought prosperity to people living on the land below, by supplying water to otherwise arid regions.