| 词汇 | jerkwater |
| 释义 | jerkwater adjective[ before noun ] USinformaluk /ˈdʒɜːkˌwɔː.tər/ us /ˈdʒɝːkˌwɑː.t̬ɚ/ used to describe a place that is small, not important, and a long way from other places: （某地）偏僻而不重要的，边远的 I grew up in a jerkwater town in the middle of nowhere.我生长在一个不知名的偏僻小镇。 Compare backwater Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general) aerotropolis anti-city anti-urban backwater boom town burgher Cantabrigian central city civic conurbation garden city metropolitan elite multi-city municipal native place non-municipal open city small-town smoke urbanite Examples of jerkwaterjerkwater We were flying on top of a jerkwater railway, just missing the tops of the trees, when we bumped into a solid wall of fog. From Project Gutenberg They'd seen me in that little jerkwater jewelry store. From Project Gutenberg She may have been successful in some little, out-of-the-way academy in a jerkwater town, but she's sadly out of place here. From Project Gutenberg He'd make more dough if he owned the local garage and dealer franchise for one of the automobile companies in some jerkwater town. From Project Gutenberg Jerkwater is what it should be, he thought. From Project Gutenberg We'll have to locate the tanks and keep a guard there; we'll have to pull off a franchise for our little jerkwater railroad. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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