backwater

《backwater》在绝学社语料库真实语境中出现 58 次：美剧 3 · 电影 2 · 原著 49 · 演讲 4

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• “Leggett! Just send up-stairs to see if all. the doors are open and the rooms in proper order. That’s an awful idea of yours, Kingsmill, or of mine!” added my lord, recovering the courtesy of his order by an effort that I could follow. “We should look fools. I don’t know which of us it was, by the way, who seduced the rest from the main stream of blood into this burglarious backwater. Are you familiar with De Quincey’s masterpiece on ‘Murder as a Fine Art,’ Mr. Raffles?” —— 英文原著《A Thief in the Night》 译
• But as he walked away, his fears dispelled, the sense of listlessness returned on him. For the first time since his avowal to Peter Ascham he found himself without an occupation, and understood that he had been carried through the past weeks only by the necessity of constant action. Now his life had once more become a stagnant backwater, and as he stood on the street corner watching the tides of traffic sweep by, he asked himself despairingly how much longer he could endure to float about in the sluggish circle of his consciousness. —— 英文原著《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 1》 译
• It’s like I’m trying to canoe out to sea but the current keeps washing me back to the same shallow backwater. —— 美剧《Bojack Horseman》 译
• We’re a backwater here but, heaven knows, we’ve our share of diabetes. —— 美剧《Downton Abbey》 译
• It’s somewhat of a mundane backwater of medicine. —— 演讲《It's time to redesign medical data ~ Thomas Goetz》 译
• And there were tiny, tiny little factories in backwaters. —— 演讲《Want to help someone Shut up and listen! ~ Ernesto Sirolli》 译

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backwater 在真实语料中的常见搭配

• lord backwater
• mundane backwater
• shallow backwater

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