- 1. 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。
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- 2. 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。
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- 3. 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！
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- 4. Some were playing water-polo in the backwater.
- 有些人在回水河汊玩水球。
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- 5. 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。
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- 6. 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。
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- 7. 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。
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- 8. 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。
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- 9. 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。
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- 10. 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。
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- 11. 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。
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- 12. 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。
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- 13. 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。
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- 14. 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。
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- 15. 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。
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- 16. 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。
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- 17. 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。
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- 18. 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。
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- 19. 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。
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- 20. 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。”
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- 21. 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。
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- 22. 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。
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- 23. 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。
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- 24. 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。
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