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词组 backblocks
释义 backblocks
noun
remote and sparsely populated land beyond the outskirts of a town or city AUSTRALIA
  • [H]e knows as much about commanding Police as Captain Standish does about mustering mosquitoes and boiling them down for their fat on the back blocks of the Lachlan[.] — Ned Kelly, The Jerilderie Letter, p. 100, 1879
  • “Out in the sticks”, “out in the backblock”, “out in the bush”, “out in the booay”, “out in the cactus”, all have the same basic meaning of “fifty miles from nowhere.” — R.L. Bacon, In the Sticks, p. 184, 1963
  • Buchanan was originally from Wilcannia or Walgett, one of those shit-awful racist dumps in the backblocks of New South Wales. — Shane Maloney, Nice Try, p. 36, 1998
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