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英语单词 suburban
英美音标 英 [sə'bɜːbən] 美 [sə'bɜːrbən]
中文释义 adj.市郊的;郊区的
英语例句 (1) Its newspapers include the Hartford Courant in Connecticut, a number of suburban Philadelphia newspapers and the Trentonian near Philadelphia.
(2) They decide to head for a suburban shopping mall.
(3) A food bank deliveryman is found dead, in a suburban home.
中文例句 (1) 其运营的报纸包括位于康涅狄格的哈特福德报,及费城市郊的诸多报纸。
(2) 于是他们决定前往郊区的购物中心。
(3) 一个美国食粮捐赠中心的送货员被害,尸体在其郊区的家中被发现。
vocabulary简明 This refers to areas just beyond a city’s border. Many suburban homes have a pool.
vocabulary扩展 If you see a lot of malls, plus houses that all look the same, and you're just outside a city, then you're in a suburban area: the suburbs. If you're from the suburbs, the chaos of New York City might be shocking. Suburban areas aren't as busy as urban (city) areas, but there's a lot more going on than in rural areas — farmland. One difference between suburban and urban areas is the urban areas have more cabs and public transportation.
柯林斯解释
1
[ADJ 形容词]郊区的;城外的 Suburban means relating to a suburb.
  [ADJ n]
  • ...a comfortable suburban home.

    城外舒适的住所

  • ...a suburban shopping centre in Sydney.

    悉尼城郊的购物中心

2
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]平淡乏味的;呆板的;传统的 If you describe something as suburban, you mean that it is dull and conventional.
  • His clothes are conservative and suburban.

    他衣着保守而传统。

  • ...ghastly good taste and suburban gentility.

    令人厌恶的高级品位和无聊呆板的绅士风度

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