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backwoods

/bak-woodz/US // ˈbækˈwʊdz //UK // (ˈbækwʊdz) //

僻静处,树林,僻壤

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : wooded or partially uncleared and unsettled districts.
    • : any remote or isolated area.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Also backwood, backwoodsy.

    • : of or relating to the backwoods.
    • : unsophisticated; uncouth.

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Examples

  • This byway’s two distinct branches—the Coastal Trail and the Forest Trail—wind through unexpected, wild, backwoods versions of Florida.

  • Attempts to smuggle the self-styled backwoods boy into the professional class were unsuccessful.

  • On trips to backwoods cabins and huts, I’ve appreciated the modesty the Rothe’s unusually long cut provides.

  • Trudging off to the right, threading his way past bear traps on the ground, he comes upon a house — just what you’d expect in a backwoods horror flick.

  • He spends his days shacked up in a 400-square-foot converted turkey coop in the backwoods of Maine.

  • He suspected that the driver, who was identified as Cody Alan Legebokoff, was poaching in the backwoods.

  • So, beneath all the changes that had come to her backwoods lover, Sammy felt that Ollie himself was unchanged.

  • To the simple girl of the backwoods, he succeeded in making the life in the city appear very wonderful, indeed.

  • If he is wise, he will stay in the backwoods to be worshipped for he'll find that his size won't count for much in the world.

  • Even in comparatively civilized American backwoods, a person who has killed a bully has been thought a public benefactor.

  • Prestige is nowhere held at higher premium than in the backwoods.