backwoods

基本解释

• n. 未开垦地；边远地区；偏僻的森林地区
• adj. 蛮荒的，粗野的；边远地区的

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Let me tell you about a little girl who was born into a very poor family in a shack in the Backwoods of Tennessee.
  让我告诉你一个小姑娘的故事，她出生在田纳西州边远地区一个贫穷家庭的小木屋里。
• It helped him play the part that Paris imagined for him: that of the noble frontier philosopher and simple backwoods sage--even though he had lived most of his life in Philadelphia and London.
  这让他游刃有余地扮演着巴黎所希望他扮演的角色：高贵的哲学先驱和朴素的蛮荒地圣人——尽管他绝大多数时间都居住在费城和伦敦。
• 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。

权威例句

• Over the backwoods and fields which, given the time of year, were typically covered in snow.
  FORBES: "Our Hearts Are Broken Today" - President Barack Obama
• And the gamble paid off: Britons of the time thirsted for images of backwoods America.
  ECONOMIST: John James Audubon
• Extraordinary: the Missouri Ozarks as a backwoods crime scene in which methamphetamine fosters paranoia and corruption everywhere.
  NEWYORKER: Winter’s Bone

词组短语

短语

• backwoods advantage 森林笼罩率
• high backwoods 乔林
• backwoods buyership 林权
• secondary backwoods 次生林
• backwoods hicks 乡下人

英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• If you refer to an area as the backwoods, you mean that it is a long way from large towns or cities and is isolated from modern life.