| 1 | My dream, it is not a backwater. | |
| 2 | On the backwater of calm, I am not in the mood to view. | |
| 3 | Today the backwater has turned into Niagara Falls. | |
| 4 | In contrast, nothing lives in the Dead Sea because, with no outflow, the lake has stagnated. | |
| 5 | It smoothed and accelerated reforms that would transform China from a Cold War backwater into the world's fourth-largest economy at astonishing speed. |