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Backyard N Count Area 英[ˌbækˈjɑ:D 美[ˌbækˈjɑrd N.后院 后院 Land

单词 backyard
音标
英[ˌbækˈjɑ:d] 美[ˌbækˈjɑrd]
解释
n.后院;
例句

N-COUNT
后院
A backyard is an area of land at the back of a house.

N-COUNT
(某国的)后院(指本土或该国意欲施加影响的邻近地区)
If you refer to a country's own backyard, you are referring to its own territory or to somewhere that is very close and where that country wants to influence events.
例:Economics will not stop Europe's politicians complaining when jobs are lost in their own backyard...当本国人口在失业时,经济情况是无法让欧洲的政治家停止抱怨的。
例:Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, an area that the United States has long regarded as its own backyard.古巴是加勒比地区最大的岛屿,美国长期以来一直把它看作自己的后院。
变形
pl:backyards~

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