The state's high schools remain an educational backwater where dropout rates are rising.

该州的高中仍旧是教育封闭落后之所，辍学率在上升。

Here's our backwater at last, where we're going to lunch.

我们终于到水河汊了，我们要在这儿吃午饭。

I came up this backwater to try and get a moment's peace, and then stumble upon you fellows!

我来到这水河汊，想要得到片刻的安宁，却偶遇了你们这些家伙！

Some were playing water-polo in the backwater.

有些人在回水河汊玩水球。

Today the backwater has turned into Niagara Falls.

在今天，那过去的一潭死水已蜕变为尼亚加拉瀑布。

Stop the struggle, the rivers will become a backwater.

停止奋斗的脚步，江河就会沦为一潭死水。

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。

It was a thorny backwater similarly ruled by a warrior code.

这里曾是被尚武精神统治的穷山恶水之地。

We have been located in a backwater part of the galactic rim.

我们位于银河系边缘的偏远山区。

Because commercial pattern is pendent, all jobs backwater not before.

由于商业模式悬而未决，所有的工作都停滞不前。

IT STARTED with a little-reported court judgement in an American backwater.

事情起于一起发生在美国偏远地区却鲜有报道的法庭判决。

When Drucker first turned his mind to the subject in the 1940s it was a backwater.

二十世纪40年代当德·鲁克首次转而关注此学科时它还是一潭死水。

It is a commonplace to say that Northern Ireland is a backwater in modern Europe.

有关北爱尔兰是现代欧洲的一潭死水的说法已经是陈词滥调了。

Western governments are, however, worried that trouble may be brewing in this backwater.

但是，许多西方国家担心这潭死水正酝酿着麻烦。

Though considered a backwater, its mining industry was once seen as a key strategic asset.

虽然相当荒僻，但是它的矿业一度被视为关键性的战略资产。

NOT long ago, Lod, an Israeli city near the commercial hub of Tel Aviv, was a sleepy backwater.

卢德镇坐落于以色列商业中心特拉维夫附近，不久前，这儿还只是个闭塞落后的穷乡僻壤。

But by the standards of the Greek and Roman worlds, Judea was a kind of insignificant backwater.

但是根据希腊罗马时代的标准，朱迪亚算是无足轻重的封闭地区。

Southerners whisper that no one would show up if Parliament were based in a backwater such as Manchester.

南方人说，如果议会在诸如闭塞的曼彻斯特开会，将没有一个人到场。

From being a little-visited Bohemian backwater, it became the glittering jewel in the central European crown.

布拉格已经从鲜有人问津的波西米亚腐水塘，变成中欧皇冠上闪亮的珠宝。

He went on to say the press were elitists who would believe any tales they were told about backwater Arkansas.

他接着说，“媒体都信奉精英主义，他们会相信关于你这个出身于阿肯色州穷乡僻壤的小子的任何传言。”

When he was assigned to lead Toyota's Chinese operations in 2001, China was still a backwater in Toyota's global strategy.

他于2001年被指派负责丰田的中国业务时，在公司的全球战略中，中国还是一片蛮荒之地。

Since the mid-1990s it has become obvious that the bottleneck would need to be cleared, or the canal would become a backwater.

90年代中期以来，这一瓶颈问题愈发突出，运河亟需扩建疏导，否则将变成死水。

Ten years ago Sweetwater was a dusty backwater best known for having the world’s largest rattlesnake round-up (see article).

十年前，甘水镇是一个灰尘乱飞的穷乡僻壤，以世界上最大的响尾蛇聚集地而著称。