Outskirt
['aʊtskɜːt] or ['aʊt,skɝt]
解释:
(noun.) a part of the city far removed from the center; 'they built a factory on the outskirts of the city'.
编辑:梅布尔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town.
布兰得利整理
同义词及近义词：
n. Suburb, border, environs.
杰勒德整理
解释:
n. the outer skirt: border: suburb—often used in pl.
克里斯整理
娱乐性解释：
The only garments which clothe many a metropolis with decency.
录入:朱迪思
例句:
- I don't know that the arts have a milieu here, any of them; they're more like a very thinly settled outskirt. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- I should have walked on to the church if the conversation of two men and a woman on the outskirts of the crowd had not caught my ear. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Artificial reservoirs are usually constructed on the near outskirts of a town in order that the frictional force lost in transmission may be reduced to a minimum. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- I stopped the recruiting service, and disposed the troops about the outskirts of the city so as to guard all approaches. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- I met the Prince in the New Road, at the outskirts of London, some time afterwards. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Among those circling futilely the outskirts of the banqueters was old Tublat. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- She stopped in the outskirts of the town, where she had noticed trunks for sale, and purchased a handsome one. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- When the wagon approached the outskirts of the town I was met by a large crowd. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- We are on the outskirts of Lee, said my companion. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- One very big one, I killed at dusk in the outskirts of the village on my way home one night in November. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Their residences are usually on the outskirts of 'the Rules,' chiefly lying within a circle of one mile from the obelisk in St. George's Fields. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- But this time it was no breaking away at the outskirts. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- My wanderings had led me round the outskirts of the village, and had brought me out at the lower end of it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- There was a considerable force of State militia at Camp Jackson, on the outskirts of St. Louis, at the time. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The scene now changes to a small, neat tenement, in the outskirts of Montreal; the time, evening. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- He directed me to the clerk's abode, a cottage at some little distance off, standing by itself on the outskirts of the forsaken village. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
手打:普里西拉