Suburbs
['sʌbɝb]
同义词及近义词：
n. pl. Environs, outskirts, purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, border, limit, confines, FAUBOURGS.
埃斯特拉编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Precincts, purlieus, outskirts, confines, environs
ANT:Centre, heart, citadel, acropolis
编辑:帕特里克
解释:
n. the district which is near but beyond the walls of a city: the confines outskirts.—adj. Subur′ban situated or living in the suburbs.—n. one living in a suburb.—n. Subur′banism the state of being suburban.—adj. Suburbicā′rian being near the city esp. of the provinces of Italy forming the ancient diocese of Rome.
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例句:
- Some weeks of spare time were at my disposal, before I entered on my functions by establishing myself in the suburbs of London. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- We reached the turning in the road, and there, close before us, were the suburbs of Knowlesbury. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- On the other bank of the Bosporus is Scutari and other suburbs of Constantinople. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Nobody nowadays had Colonial houses except the millionaire grocers of the suburbs. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- We must go and visit our beautiful suburbs of London, she then thought. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- It is said he found such a place in the ruined cloisters of the Monastery of St. Arbogast in the suburbs of Strasburg. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- She waited till the train had emerged from the tunnel and was racing between the ragged edges of the northern suburbs. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- It does not require a particularly acute prophetic vision to see Flower Towns of Poured Houses going up in whole suburbs outside all our chief centres of population. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- In the booths of the market fairs at Paris and its suburbs (for example, at the Gingerbread Fair, at the Féte of St. Cloud, etc. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
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