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。
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！
Some were playing water-polo in the backwater.
有些人在回水河汊玩水球。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Backwater hole and then right to the water flow convergence, the flow along the spiral case.
然后与右回水孔流来的水汇合，顺着蜗壳流动。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。”
Ma's bold ambitions, which were birthed in a time when China was a digital backwater, were realized last week.
马云的无畏抱负在中国数字化落后的年代产生，上周终于得以实现。
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。
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。
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。
John Connor, head of the Climate Institute, a Sydney research body, says Australia now risks becoming a "carbon backwater".
气候研究院是悉尼的一家调研机构，该院院长约翰•康纳表示，澳大利亚现在冒着“碳闭塞”的危险。
Jabba transplanted Desilijic operations from Nal Hutta to Tatooine, a backwater desert planet he began to think of as home.
贾巴将德西利吉克的业务从纳尔赫塔转移到穷困的沙漠星球塔图因，并开始以此为家。
For decades, Kosice, a city of 250, 000 in eastern Slovakia, was considered an industrial backwater — if it was considered at all.
几十年了，这个斯洛伐克东部居住着二十五万人口的科希策市，如果还有人能想得起来，也不过是个死水一潭的工业城市。
For decades, Kosice, a city of 250, 000 in eastern Slovakia, was considered an industrial backwater — if it was considered at all.
几十年了，这个斯洛伐克东部居住着二十五万人口的科希策市，如果还有人能想得起来，也不过是个死水一潭的工业城市。
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