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1·This agency will be relegated to the backwaters of Washington.

这个机构将被移到华盛顿闭塞落后的地方。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Electric windows, electric locks, and electric trunk catches were the latest gadgets, but wipers were one of the backwaters of automotive technology.

电动窗、电动锁和电动后盖是最新的发明，但雨刷却是汽车技术的死水。

3·These things happen: bright young things never last long in backwaters.

情况总是这样：年轻有为的人决不会在死水中待很久。

4·As Secretary of State Kissinger sent him next to the relative backwaters of Ecuador and Greece.

基辛格任国务卿后，随即将其派往相对落后的厄瓜多尔和希腊。

5·Probably he won't take any notice, because the views of those in backwaters are generally ignored.

他可能会不屑一顾，因为死水里的人的观点一般都不会被理睬。

6·Countries like India and Brazil were, after all, once secluded backwaters fenced off by high tariffs.

毕竟，像印度和巴西等国家曾经因为高额关税的阻隔而停滞不前。

7·When I was at college [Mr Rogers was born in 1942] people used to talk about the City and Wall Street as backwaters.

当我还在大学读书的时候（罗杰斯生于1942年），人们习惯于将伦敦金融城以及华尔街称为死水一样的落后地方。

8·Inhabit quiet pools and backwaters of creeks and small to large rivers, swamps, lakes and overflow areas of large streams.

栖息于大的溪流小溪的静止池水与洄水区与小型到大型河川，沼泽，湖与溢值区域。

9·Jane's been really lucky having the money and time to spend traveling around Europe to its backwaters off the beaten track.

简真幸运有钱有闲游遍了欧洲，包括那些常人不会光顾的角落。

10·One fear is that China's developers are building houses for the wrong people (speculators) in the wrong places (backwaters).

其中一个担忧是，中国的开发商在为错误的人(投机者)和错误的地方(闭塞地区)建造房屋。