名詞 backroom:

1. the meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiations

1. Backroom card games.
   在后房進行的紙牌游戲
2. The doctor finished the operation, but his success depended on the backroom boys who had invented the new laser scalpel.
   醫(yī)生做完了手術(shù)，但他的成功有賴于那些發(fā)明了新型激光手術(shù)刀的研究人員。
3. The surgeon's success depended on the boys in the backroom who had invented the new heart machine.
   這位外科醫(yī)生的成功全靠那些發(fā)明新型心臟機器的默默無聞的實干家。

backroom 或 back room

n.（名詞）
A room located at the rear.
后房：位于后部的房間
The meeting place used by an inconspicuous controlling group.
密室：被某些不引人注意的控制集團使用的會見地點
adj.（形容詞）
Of, relating to, or taking place in a backroom:
后間的：后房的，有關(guān)或發(fā)生在后房的：
例句：
backroom card games.
在后房進行的紙牌游戲

Marked by the exercise of inconspicuous control and maneuvering:
不公開的，秘密的：以運用不引人注意的控制或操縱為特點的：
例句：
backroom politics.
幕后政治