backwater

backwater['bæk,wɔ:tə]

• n.
  • (河渠水流被水坝、洪水、潮流等阻挡后形成的)回水，壅水，回流，逆流
  • (小溪或小港的)不流动的水，死水，滞水
  • (推进器在水中激起的)尾流
  • 向后退去的水流，退水
  • 落后(或停滞)状态，死气沉沉的状态(或地方)，穷乡僻壤，(与世隔绝、未开化的)隐蔽(或偏僻)地方
  • 事件的余波
• adj.
  • 死水般的；停滞的；落后的；死气沉沉的
• vi.
  • 【划船】倒桨使船停止，(逆转推进器)停船，(倒车)使船倒退，倒划，令划手划倒桨；反浪；(左舷或右舷的划手)实施急转弯
  • [美国英语]退缩去；退却，后退；撤回：

    He backwatered on his promise.

    他背弃了诺言。

• vt.
  • (以逆划或逆转推进器)停船

• wash up
• sort／merge program
• emanative
• Bihari
• curtesy
• sophs
• Scandinavian Peninsula
• aerograph
• Palaeocaridacea
• Piedmontest
• eyelashed
• vassalry
• Navajos
• L.cl.
• a pity
• food processing
• hedleyite
• differ
• all day long
• See of Rome
• be in a brown study
• herons
• communality
• side-box
• Merope
• dissymmetrically
• face lace
• gridders
• Stedman disintegrator
• microencapsulate
• cottonweed
• Grand Bank
• coexistence
• bugbanes
• trimetalic plate
• scrappingly
• true course
• deglutinating
• ket-
• world banks
• puppyism
• 2,4,7-trinitrofluorenone
• W Afr
• brigatisti
• sexiness
• miogeocline
• abusively
• acnidosporidias
• transition elements
• stemples
• blooie
• donenesses
• play for time
• heterokarya
• cleanser
• good God
• sequence analysis
• benzylidene
• cafe théatre
• cinder tracks
• Gauss eyepiece
• exclusivists
• zooplankters
• yel.
• have sth (all) to yourself
• headfuls
• Times Square
• transistance
• airspace
• excess electron
• echinococcus cyst
• quickness
• vanity publishers
• grumousness
• marginalized
• miter gauge
• free of charges
• self-assured
• PAF
• vacuum frame
• bordels
• crochetwork
• your / her ladyship
• sovereign
• hyomandibular cleft
• screw-tops
• tuning indicator
• a light sleeper
• tactical air reconnaissance
• cocainizes
• de-aestheticization
• scaled-down
• kibla(h)
• Eliot
• instructible
• fusionist
• doodee
• poke bonnet
• imbiber
• data print out file