Suburb
['sʌbɜːb] or ['sʌbɝb]
解釋/意思:
(n.) An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris.
(n.) Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.
錄入:洛伦佐
解釋/意思:
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.
錄入:费尔普斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Mr. Jonas Oldacre is a well known resident of that suburb, where he has carried on his business as a builder for many years. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Both stood in a suburb of the city, which was still country-like, with groves and lawns, large gardens, and quiet streets. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- That one,--in Crampton, don't they call the suburb? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Defarge had described himself, that day, as the keeper of a wine-shop in the Saint Antoine suburb. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- This was followed by Alexander Selligue, who, in 1834, obtained a French patent, No. 9,800, and in 1842 produced water gas at Batignolles, a suburb of Paris. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Some weeks of spare time were at my disposal, before I entered on my functions by establishing myself in the suburbs of London. 威爾基·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. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- We reached the turning in the road, and there, close before us, were the suburbs of Knowlesbury. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- On the other bank of the Bosporus is Scutari and other suburbs of Constantinople. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Nobody nowadays had Colonial houses except the millionaire grocers of the suburbs. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- We must go and visit our beautiful suburbs of London, she then thought. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It is said he found such a place in the ruined cloisters of the Monastery of St. Arbogast in the suburbs of Strasburg. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- She waited till the train had emerged from the tunnel and was racing between the ragged edges of the northern suburbs. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
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