This agency will be relegated to the backwaters of Washington.

这个机构将被移到华盛顿闭塞落后的地方。

Electric windows, electric locks, and electric trunk catches were the latest gadgets, but wipers were one of the backwaters of automotive technology.

电动窗、电动锁和电动后盖是最新的发明，但雨刷却是汽车技术的死水。

These things happen: bright young things never last long in backwaters.

情况总是这样：年轻有为的人决不会在死水中待很久。

As Secretary of State Kissinger sent him next to the relative backwaters of Ecuador and Greece.

基辛格任国务卿后，随即将其派往相对落后的厄瓜多尔和希腊。

Probably he won't take any notice, because the views of those in backwaters are generally ignored.

他可能会不屑一顾，因为死水里的人的观点一般都不会被理睬。

Countries like India and Brazil were, after all, once secluded backwaters fenced off by high tariffs.

毕竟，像印度和巴西等国家曾经因为高额关税的阻隔而停滞不前。

When I was at college [Mr Rogers was born in 1942] people used to talk about the City and Wall Street as backwaters.

当我还在大学读书的时候（罗杰斯生于1942年），人们习惯于将伦敦金融城以及华尔街称为死水一样的落后地方。

Inhabit quiet pools and backwaters of creeks and small to large rivers, swamps, lakes and overflow areas of large streams.

栖息于大的溪流小溪的静止池水与洄水区与小型到大型河川，沼泽，湖与溢值区域。

Jane's been really lucky having the money and time to spend traveling around Europe to its backwaters off the beaten track.

简真幸运有钱有闲游遍了欧洲，包括那些常人不会光顾的角落。

One fear is that China's developers are building houses for the wrong people (speculators) in the wrong places (backwaters).

其中一个担忧是，中国的开发商在为错误的人(投机者)和错误的地方(闭塞地区)建造房屋。

Flower blossoms float in a pan of water at Philipkutty’s Farm, a guest resort along the backwaters of Kerala. Photograph by Michael Melford

在Philipkutty村庄，盛开的鲜花漂浮在一盘水的表面上，该村庄是喀拉拉邦穷乡僻壤间的一处旅游度假地。

After a brief hike, we headed off the Drive, making our way through Virginia's lush backwaters via the magnificent limestone caverns at Luray.

我们稍微徒步一会又驾车上了公路，经过卢瑞壮观的石灰岩溶洞，行驶在佛吉尼亚苍翠的原野中。

Electric Windows, electric locks, electric trunk catches were the latest gadgets. But wipers were one of the quiet backwaters of automotive technology.

虽然已经有了电动车窗和电锁这样新产品，但雨刷技术却还是一滩平静的死水。

Whatever the capital's drawbacks, few Tehranis approve of a plan that would send them back to the same provincial backwaters that they or their parents left.

不管首都德黑兰存在着怎样的不足，很少有支持该计划的德黑兰市民回到他们祖辈曾今生活过的穷乡僻壤。

Resolution: Make a clear distinction between three kinds of homes-those on quiet backwaters, those on busy streets, and those that are more or less in-between.

解决方案：明确区分三种住宅，位于那些寂静的闭塞区，或位于繁忙的街道上，抑或是或多或少的居于两者之间。

Some communities have chosen to live near protected backwaters, which offer the distance from the ocean while allowing them to haul in their boats at the end of the day.

有些社区选择靠近受保护的回水区，因为这里既与大海保持了一定的距离，又可以在打完鱼后将渔船收在这里。

The language is perpetually in flux: it is a living stream, shifting, changing, receiving new strength from a thousand tributaries, losing old forms in the backwaters of time.

语言一直都在变化：那是条流动的溪水，不停地在转换、变换，接受千条支流的新生力量，丢弃旧形式。

But call it a sign of how small the world has become, or how pervasive globalization has spread, but here in the boondocks of backwaters, diverse interests from around the world have begun to seep in.

怎么说世界变得怎么小的一个标志，或者全球化的普及如何快，但这里还是一滩死水的穷乡僻壤，来自世界的各种利益群体开始渗入其中。