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Перевод: backwater

[прилагательное]
глухой; захолустный;
[существительное]
заводь ; затон ; запруженная вода; застой ; верхний бьеф; тихая заводь; болото; глушь ;
[глагол]
изменить курс судна на противоположный; изменить мнение

Тезаурус:

1. In short, Ulster remained more of a violent backwater, removed from the mainstream of British social development, at the end of the 1970s than it had been at the start of that troubled decade.
2. The exchange's members helped encourage this backwater, however.
3. For as the Industrial Revolution progressed and changed much of Northern England, the Lake District became more and more of an economic backwater, a comparatively poor district where, for example, people scraped the yellow lichen Ochrolechia tartarea from the rocks and sold it to dyers for a penny a pound.
4. It seems the Yellow Sword prefers the quiet backwater streams to the large deep rivers.
5. Those who are not prepared to do so may find that their promotion's blocked or they're shunted into a backwater - one experienced insurance broker of my acquaintance, for instance, was offered a job in the stationery department!
6. She "knew" that "she had come to a place at the end of the world", a backwater where there was no action at all.
7. Occasionally there have been eruptions, most famously when mass pressure by GPs forced the 1966 reforms in primary care - the first substantial public investment into what had been the backwater of general practice.
8. It presents a scene of rural contentment, a delectable backwater remote and undisturbed by pressures of the world outside.
9. Claro had been a backwater for long enough.
10. Suddenly a soccer backwater had tasted success but, as Mr Stringer readily admits: "We have always had the problem of being sidetracked."
11. It is as if the war, crisis, living hell or chaotic backwater can never be known and will never end.
12. Now there is a general consensus in the Netherlands that Britain is an economic backwater, and that Thatcher really can't be taken seriously - due in no small part to her resistance to British assimilation into the European Community.
13. At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing: no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond.