They look down upon those who live in intellectual backwater.

他们瞧起智力处于停滞状态人。

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 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，但是天知道，也还是有少糖尿病人。

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。

Yemen at this point is no backwater; it dominates the entrance to the Red Sea, and with it the great trade route that linked Egypt and the rest of the Roman Empire to India.

当时也门绝非荒僻之地，它把守着红海人口，控制了从埃及与罗马帝国其他地区通往印度贸易路线。

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。

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。

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。

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矮子，并强烈渴望在艺术界挑战纽约和伦敦地位。

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

甚至有证据表明他们在一个只有两个证人偏僻小教堂里举行了秘密婚礼。

Beryl Gardinant, a self-proclaimed humble old man, is a sword instructor at his dojo in a rural backwater village.

贝里尔·加尔迪安特， 一个自称谦逊老人，是位于偏远乡村村庄道场一名剑术教练。

Texas has changed dramatically since then in just a little over one and a half centuries, from a rural backwater on the fringes of the world to an economic powerhouse home to tens of millions.

从那时起，德克萨斯州在短短一个半世纪时间里发生了巨大变化，从一个处于世界边缘落农村变成了一个拥有数千万人口经济强地。

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728年，西欧还是由许小国与城邦拼凑在一起、政局混乱、岌岌可危落之地。

This is not, we're not talking about, we're not talking about some random backwater country.

这可是在说一些随机小国。

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

村道止于上述回水浅处。

Largely with mockery and laughter, because nobody thinks that this place, which was effectively a sort of gold smuggling, houses made out of sand and coral, kind of backwater, nobody believes that you can make Hong Kong here.

人们大对此嗤之以鼻，笑声断，因为没人认为这个实际上曾是走私黄金、用沙子和珊瑚建造房屋偏僻之地，能在这里打造出另一个香港。

So there is that feeling that something needs to change and needs to change quite fast in order to make sure the UK doesn't become some sort of financial backwater for a global market.

人们感觉有些事情需要改变， 而且需要非常迅速地改变， 以确保英国会成为全球市场某种金融死水。