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。

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

在19世纪，美国的科学还是死水潭。

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的死水里 不安歇的高更都曾寻求逃离。

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！以你的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，但是知道，也还是有不少糖尿病人。

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， 个自称谦逊的老人，是位于偏远乡村村庄道场的名剑术教练。

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个只有两个证人的偏僻小教堂里举行了秘密婚礼。

It transformed from a  backwater into the largest coal-exporting port in the world.

它从片偏远之地转变为全球最大的煤炭出口港。

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

这可不是在说些随机的小国。

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.

要扇你嘴巴的女孩，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.

就像大型商场样，外卖食品也渗透到了那些最小的偏远城镇。

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

现在, 这里终于是我们的穷乡僻壤了, 我们要去那里吃午饭。

Before the mouse arrived, it was  a quiet, swampy backwater known for cattle farming and citrus groves.

在米老鼠到来之前，这里是片宁静、沼泽遍布的偏僻之地，以畜牧业和柑橘园著称。

A high school kid in a backwater town in California stumbled onto it with his homemade radio telescope.

个加州偏远小镇的高中生用自制的射电望远镜偶然发现了它。

Especially the son of a farmer's  daughter and glove-maker from a Warwickshire backwater who  didn't even go to university.

尤其是那个来自沃里克郡偏僻地区的农民女儿和手套制造商的儿子，他甚至没有上过大学。

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

在新大陆，高纬度的寒冷地区更是人类的死水区。

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;他驻扎在南太平洋的死水区，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的状态将引领世界走向历史上最具变革性的经济时代似乎很疯狂。