They look down upon those who live in intellectual backwater.

他们瞧不起智力处于停滞状态。

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。

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

在法国和马提尼克平静死水里 不安歇高更都曾寻求逃离。

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！以你身手呆在这里也太浪费了.

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，也还是有不少糖尿病。

There's even some evidence to suggest they married in a secret ceremony, inside a tiny, backwater church with only two witnesses.

甚至有据表明他们在一个只有两个偏僻小教堂里举行了秘密婚礼。

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

村止于上述回水浅处。

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

想要扇你嘴巴孩，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。

Now then, here's our backwater at last, where we're going to lunch.

现在, 这里终于是我们穷乡僻壤了, 我们要去那里吃午饭。

In the New World the cold regions at high latitude were even more of a human backwater.

在新大陆，高纬度寒冷地区更是类死水区。

He did not see combat; stationed in the South Pacific backwaters, he played poker to pass the time.

他没有看到战斗;他驻扎在南太平洋死水区，玩扑克来打发时间。

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。

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。

Madrid was not quite a backwater village, as is sometimes said, but it is the only European capital with an Islamic foundation.

马德里并不像有时所说那样是一个偏僻村庄，但它是唯一一个拥有伊斯兰基础欧洲首都。

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沼泽死水。

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。