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Province Special Capital Country Coffee Shop Government 英

英语单词 province
英美音标 英 ['prɒvɪns] 美 ['prɑːvɪns]
中文释义 n.省
英语例句 (1) British Columbia is a province of Canada.
(2) Hangzhou is the capital city of Zhejiang Province.
中文例句 (1) 不列颠哥伦比亚是加拿大的一个省。
(2) 杭州是浙江的省会城市。
vocabulary简明 A province is a region within a country. If you travel to Canada, you'll have to decide whether you want to go to the province of Quebec, or Saskatchewan, or one of the other 8 provinces in that enormous country.
vocabulary扩展 Many countries are divided into provinces. In the U.S. we don't have official provinces; we have states and counties. But we can use province in its other meaning, which is "the sphere of one's activities." If you manage a coffee shop and sit there reading and drinking coffee even when you're not working, then that shop is your province.
柯林斯解释
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词] A province is a large section of a country which has its own administration.
  • ...the Algarve, Portugal's southernmost province.

    阿尔加维, 葡萄牙最南部的省份

2
[N-PLURAL 复数名词]外省(首都以外的地区) The provinces are all the parts of a country except the part where the capital is situated.
  [usu the N]
  • The government plans to transfer some 30,000 government jobs from Paris to the provinces.

    政府计划将3万个左右的政府职位从巴黎转移到外省。

3
[N-SING 单数名词](兴趣、知识、责任的)范围,领域 If you say that a subject or activity is a particular person's province, you mean that this person has a special interest in it, a special knowledge of it, or a special responsibility for it.
  [with poss]
  • Arvo avoided committing himself. 'I'm afraid that's not my province,' he replied...

    阿尔沃不想作出承诺,“恐怕那不归我管,”他回答说。

  • Industrial research is the province of the Department of Trade and Industry.

    工业研究属贸易和工业部的职责范围。

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