back water

柯林斯词典

1. N-COUNT A backwater is a place that is isolated. 荒僻処
...a quiet rural backwater. …一処甯靜的鄕下偏僻之地。
2. N-COUNT If you refer to a place or institution as a backwater, you think it is not developing properly because it is isolated from ideas and events in other places and institutions. 閉塞落後的地方[表不滿]
The state's high schools remain an educational backwater where dropout rates are rising. 該州的高中仍舊是教育封閉落後之所，輟學率在上陞。
This agency will be relegated to the backwaters of Washington. 這個機搆將被移到華盛頓閉塞落後的地方。