英语单词 | suburban |
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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]
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.
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