backwatered

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

• trace elements
• boozery
• histones
• semipopular
• snake feeders
• have a blow
• ismailians
• out with it!
• burus
• Americanly
• examiner
• destitute of
• caucasias
• DP
• ferrotungsten
• generosity
• swarthy
• snow
• ethylene resin
• mercuric
• strenuosity
• bring something down around one's ears
• super-duper
• dextrocardial
• La Motte-Fouque, Baron Friedrich Heinrich Karl
• Formosa
• allel
• trypsinized
• yachtswomen
• jangler
• urticants
• be up to trap
• comprimarios
• muzzleloading
• ground fallout plot
• cooler
• age pigment
• be wearing your teacher's / salesman's etc hat
• amyloidoses
• ply sb with sth
• fanfarons
• know limits
• pratingly
• stock of jokes / knowledge / courage etc
• perisphere
• gargles
• behmenisms
• conceives
• pulse duration
• cannibalism
• liftbridge
• show willing
• phase solubility
• caffeinism
• have sb/sth in mind (for sth)
• thais
• lampreys
• hoicked
• sneezed
• agit
• pellet mouldings
• mesotronic
• chemical pulping
• sleep over
• piezoelectric element
• turdine
• poignancies
• soft lenses
• arrive
• librarians
• voronezhs
• famous the last words
• fersmanite
• Zinjanthropus boisei
• triploidy
• allobarbital
• esoterics
• granddads
• lingua franca
• Greek fret
• jingoisms
• forever and a day
• double-ripper
• selenography
• heptathlons
• rhinoplasty
• spring peepers
• Eocrinoidea
• do away with
• malefactions
• prophetess
• toasting fork
• directional homing
• Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de
• enjoyer
• cut capacity
• megalomaniac
• depressomotor
• consequentialness
• aitchbone