boondocks的意思|boondocks的解释-里氏词典

boondocks ['bun`dɑks]

n. 荒野

boondocks

[ noun ]
a remote and undeveloped area
<noun.location>

boondocks \boondocks\ n.
a remote and undeveloped area; -- sometimes used
deprecatingly.

Syn: backwoods, back country, hinterland.
[WordNet 1.5]

"When I'm in the boondocks on institute business, local CPAs often ask me, 'What do you institute guys in your ivory tower in New York really know about our small-town problems?'"
She said, `I'll buy the land so you'll have it when you're ready to build.' "The next morning I put on boots and went to the boondocks, looking at land.
Another woman, who moved to the "boondocks" in Prince William 12 years ago, said she had "done nothing but fight" intrusions on that rural atmosphere ever since.
For now, jobs remain concentrated in the southeast, and yuppies there have discovered they get more for their mortgage money in the boondocks.
Of course, image isn't the only downside of moving to the industrial boondocks.

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