4周搞定2000+托福核心词
回水
backwater
常考释义
The residence time is an average; the time spent in the lake by a given molecule (if we could follow its fate) would depend on the route it took: it might flow through as part of the fastest, most direct current, or it might circle in a backwater for an indefinitely long time.
停留时间是一个平均数；湖中特定分子（如果我们可以追踪它的路线的话）花费的时间取决于它的路线：它可能是最快最直接的水流的那一部分流过，或者它可能在在逆流中无限长的时间里打圈。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL24 P1n. 死气沉沉的地方；与世隔绝的地方；停滞状态；落后状态
Quebec remained a backwater until the 1960s.
魁北克直至20世纪60年代还是个死气沉沉的地方。
Britain could become a political backwater with no serious influence in the world.
英国可能成为一个在世界上没有重大影响的政治落后地区。
n. 远离尘嚣的地方；世外桃源
the pretty rural backwater where they live
他们居住的那个美丽的乡间世外桃源
n. （河水受阻形成的）回水，死水
The residence time is an average; the time spent in the lake by a given molecule (if we could follow its fate) would depend on the route it took: it might flow through as part of the fastest, most direct current, or it might circle in a backwater for an indefinitely long time.
停留时间是一个平均数；湖中特定分子（如果我们可以追踪它的路线的话）花费的时间取决于它的路线：它可能是最快最直接的水流的那一部分流过，或者它可能在在逆流中无限长的时间里打圈。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL24 P1n. 回流的水；被阻挡的水
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