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

在19世纪，美国的科还是死水一潭。

They look down upon those who live in intellectual backwater.

他们瞧不起智力处于停滞状态的人。

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的多沙地带。

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

哪里好了！以的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.

在法国尼克平静的死水里 不安歇的高更都曾寻求逃离。

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.

想要扇嘴巴的女孩，来自偏远小镇，南部贫民区的垃圾。

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的偏远城镇。

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，泻湖本身是罗帝国相对孤立的沼泽死水。

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

博物馆的创始人艾伦被广泛认为是在拉穆还是一个隐蔽的死水区时将其列入文化版图的功臣，但他并未被及。

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的状态将引领世界走向历史上最具变革性的时代似乎很疯狂。

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的矮子，并强烈渴望在艺术界挑战纽约伦敦的地位。

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的一个偏僻小镇（现属捷克共国）的一个贫苦农民家庭。

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的死水。

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年的时间里，我们已从一个完全停滞不前的全球卫生研究，转变为一个新的全球卫生的愿景，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、墓葬俑完工的728年，西欧还是由许多小国与城邦拼凑在一起、政局混乱、岌岌可危的落后之地。

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的公主，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的，但他知道他的目标是什么， 因为他从婴儿时期就把它藏在他心中不可侵犯的死水里。