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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。For years they lived in the backwater of the country.他们在这国家的落后地区住了多年。This modest, not-so-pretty backwater became a citadel of culture.这一朴实无华的落后地区成了文化的堡垒。News travels slow to a backward region.消息传到落后地区很慢。It is a commonplace to say that Northern Ireland is a backwater in the modern Europe.说北爱尔兰是现代欧洲死气沉沉的落后地区已是陈词滥调了。 |