They look down upon those who live in intellectual backwater.

他们瞧起智力处于停滞状态的人。

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后的多沙地带。

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里 的高更都曾寻求逃离。

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，但是天知道，也还是有少糖尿病人。

Modern Georgia is a far cry from the ill-run backwater that Mr Saakashvili took over in 2003.

2003年，萨卡什维利开始接手这滩经营善的死，如今的格鲁吉亚已经完全同。

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

在19世纪，美国的科学还是死一潭。

Just like the shopping mall, takeout foods have invaded even the smallest backwater towns.

就像大型商场一样，外卖食品也渗透到了那些最小的偏远城镇。

The one that tried to slap you, from the backwater bayou, that Southern ghetto trash.

想要扇你嘴巴的女孩，来自偏远小镇，南部贫民区的垃圾。

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的矮子，并强烈渴望在艺术界挑战纽约和伦敦的地位。

To predict that a European backwater would lead the world into the most transformative economic epoch in history would have seemed like madness.

要预测欧洲停滞前的状态将引领世界史上最具变革性的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的一个偏僻小镇（现属捷克共和国）的一个贫苦农民家庭。

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年的时间里，我们已经从一个完全停滞前的全球卫生研究，转变为一个新的全球卫生的愿景，也实际上得到了资助。

We'll adventure to the rural backwaters, to cook traditional dishes. -This pig's ear is really good, cartilegy! Good! -And find out why Sichuan cuisine is now been celebrated around the world.

我们会去到闭塞的乡间探险，烹饪传统菜肴。-这猪耳朵上的软骨好好吃！-了解为何如今川菜在全世界如此闻名遐迩。

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。

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.

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

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多的时间里发生了巨大的变化，从一个处于世界边缘的落后农村变成了一个拥有数千万人口的经济强地。

Sometimes we go upstream to a favourite backwater, sometimes we have our party at the boathouse, which a predecessor of ours at the farm built in the meadow hard by the deepest pool for swimming and diving.

有时，我们溯流而上来到我们喜爱的回河汊举办；有时我们在船坞举办派对。那船坞是农场一位前辈在一块草地上盖的，草地紧挨着一个专供游泳、跳的深池。

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、墓葬俑完工的728年，西欧还是由许多小国与城邦拼凑在一起、政局混乱、岌岌可危的落后之地。