backwoods

英 [ˈbækwʊdz]

美 [ˈbækwʊdz]

n.  边远落后地区

牛津词典

noun

• 边远落后地区
  a place that is away from any big towns and from the influence of modern life

柯林斯词典

• N-PLURAL 边远落后地区；穷乡僻壤
  If you refer to an area asthe backwoods, you mean that it is a long way from large towns and is isolated from modern life.
  1. ...the backwoods of Louisiana.
     路易斯安那州的穷乡僻壤
  2. ...a backwoods section of Kentucky.
     肯塔基州的偏远地区

英英释义

noun

• a remote and undeveloped area
  Synonym:back countryboondockshinterland

双语例句

• Who knows what goes on in the backwoods here.
  谁知道这荒郊野外会发生什么。
• In America's lightly regulated supermarket industry, most shoppers in all but the deepest backwoods live just a few minutes'drive from a large supermarket.
  在美国这样监管宽松的超市行业，除了那些住在深山老林里的人，大多数顾客离大型超级市场只有几分钟的车程。
• I shall be better in the diggings or the backwoods than ever I could be here.
  我在金矿采掘区或偏僻的森林地带，要比在这儿好得多。
• Last month, however, I spent two weeks in my in-laws 'cabin on a farm in the backwoods of Canada with one phone and no computer.
  然而，上个月我花了两周时间呆在婆家的农场小屋里，那个农场位于加拿大的偏远地带，只有一部电话，没有电脑。
• She was ashamed of her humble background. Lincoln rose from humble backwoods origins to become one of the great presidents of the United States.
  他开创了从卑微的出身到美国最伟大的总统之一。
• Was a little girl who was born into a very poor family in the backwoods of Tennessee.
  是位出生在田纳西州一个边远地区的贫困家庭里的小女孩。
• Gerald had lived in Savannah long enough to acquire a viewpoint of the coast& that all of the rest of the state was backwoods, with an Indian lurking in every thicket.
  杰拉尔德在萨凡纳已住了很久，了解了海滨人的观点，即认为这个州的其余部分都是嬷嬷的森林地带，每个灌木丛中都潜伏着印第安人。
• He looks like a backwoods relative, fanatical and narrow-minded.
  他看上去像是从乡下来的一个亲戚，思想狂热而狭隘。
• The era of the backwoods rube is gone.
  落后地区乡巴佬的时代已成过去。
• This was, after all, a man who went to Yale and Oxford but who grew up the child of a widow in the backwoods of Arkansas.
  不过这种联合就像一个去耶鲁和牛津的人，却在阿肯色州的荒地上由寡妇带大。