英语词汇jerkwater怎么读，是什么意思，单词翻译、读音、固定搭配用法和短语词组及例句-英汉双解词典

jerkwater

adjective[before noun]

USinformal

/ˈdʒɜːkˌwɔː.tər/us

/ˈdʒɝːkˌwɑː.t̬ɚ/

used todescribeaplacethat issmall, notimportant, and alongway from otherplaces:

（某地）偏僻而不重要的，边远的

Igrewup in a jerkwatertownin themiddleofnowhere.我生长在一个不知名的偏僻小镇。

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(Definition ofjerkwaterfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofjerkwater

jerkwater

We were flying on top of ajerkwaterrailway, just missing the tops of the trees, when we bumped into a solid wall of fog.

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They'd seen me in that littlejerkwaterjewelry store.

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She may have been successful in some little, out-of-the-way academy in ajerkwatertown, but she's sadly out of place here.

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He'd make more dough if he owned the local garage and dealer franchise for one of the automobile companies in somejerkwatertown.

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Jerkwateris what it should be, he thought.

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We'll have to locate the tanks and keep a guard there; we'll have to pull off a franchise for our littlejerkwaterrailroad.

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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.

单词	jerkwater
释义	jerkwater adjective[before noun] USinformal uk /ˈdʒɜːkˌwɔː.tər/us /ˈdʒɝːkˌwɑː.t̬ɚ/ used todescribeaplacethat issmall, notimportant, and alongway from otherplaces: （某地）偏僻而不重要的，边远的 Igrewup in a jerkwatertownin themiddleofnowhere.我生长在一个不知名的偏僻小镇。 Compare backwater SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general) aerotropolis anti-city anti-urban Cantabrigian citywide county borough garden city Londoner metro municipal retirement community retirement village sanctuary city sister city twin urban urban jungle urbanization village Woop Woop See more results » (Definition ofjerkwaterfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press) Examplesofjerkwater jerkwater We were flying on top of ajerkwaterrailway, just missing the tops of the trees, when we bumped into a solid wall of fog. FromProject Gutenberg They'd seen me in that littlejerkwaterjewelry store. FromProject Gutenberg She may have been successful in some little, out-of-the-way academy in ajerkwatertown, but she's sadly out of place here. FromProject Gutenberg He'd make more dough if he owned the local garage and dealer franchise for one of the automobile companies in somejerkwatertown. FromProject Gutenberg Jerkwateris what it should be, he thought. FromProject Gutenberg We'll have to locate the tanks and keep a guard there; we'll have to pull off a franchise for our littlejerkwaterrailroad. FromProject 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. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/jerkwater##
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