劍橋詞典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，邊遠(yuǎn)的 I grew up in a jerkwater town in the middle of nowhere . 我生長在一個不知名的偏僻小鎮(zhèn)。 比較backwater 返回 jerkwater