Not because your department is a backwater ; backwaters can be perfectly nice .
不是因为你的部门是一潭死水；死水可以变活。
Although the foreigners will never admit it , some of these operations have gone from backwaters within multinationals to vital sources of growth .
虽然外商拒不承认，但部分业务在跨国公司内部已经由“死水”变为重要的增长来源。
Probably he won 't take any notice , because the views of those in backwaters are generally ignored .
他可能会不屑一顾，因为死水里的人的观点一般都不会被理睬。
Electric windows , electric locks , electric trunk catches were the latest gadgets . But wipers were one of the quiet backwaters of automotive technology .
