英和和英

名詞

backland (複数形 backlands)

1. Land that lies behind or beyond some primary settlement or development.
   • 2007 January 25, Larry Rohter, “Long-Lost Trove of Music Connects Brazil to Its Roots”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     He has developed a sophisticated, inventive way to use these modulations that were quite common in the singers we heard there in the backlands of the northeast.”