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 .

虽然已经有了电动车窗和电锁这样新产品，但雨刷技术却还是一滩平静的死水。