suburb

英 [ˈsʌbɜːb]

美 [ˈsʌbɜːrb]

n.  郊区; 城外

复数：suburbs　

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牛津词典

noun

• 郊区；城外
  an area where people live that is outside the centre of a city
  1. a suburb of London
     伦敦郊区
  2. a London suburb
     伦敦郊区
  3. They live in the suburbs .
     他们住在城外。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 城郊;郊区
  Asuburb ofa city or large town is a smaller area which is part of the city or large town but is outside its centre.
  1. Anna was born in 1923 in Ardwick, a suburb of Manchester.
     安娜于1923年出生在曼彻斯特的郊区阿德维克。
  2. ...the north London suburbs of Harrow, Barnet and Enfield.
     伦敦北部郊区哈罗区、巴尼特区和恩菲尔德区。
• N-PLURAL 城郊住宅区
  If you livein the suburbs, you live in an area of houses outside the centre of a large town or city.
  1. His family lived in the suburbs.
     他家住在城郊。
  2. ...Bombay's suburbs.
     孟买城郊住宅区

英英释义

noun

• a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
  Synonym:suburbiasuburban area

双语例句

• The policemen phoned to every ward and suburb.
  警察给各城区和郊区打电话。
• Their ears were still attuned to the sounds of the London suburb.
  他们依然很熟悉伦敦市郊的喧闹声。
• I grew up in the suburb of a city.
  我呢，是在一个城市的郊区长大的。
• A city of west-central Washington, a suburb of Seattle.
  兰顿美国华盛顿州中西部的一个城市，为西雅图的郊区。
• A suburb of Paris; site of the international airport serving Paris.
  巴黎的一个郊区；一个服务于巴黎地区的主要的国际机场所在地。
• Tom grew up in the predominantly black, middle-class suburb of this city.
  汤姆在黑人和中产阶级占多数的市郊长大。
• He legally changed his name to Allen Vincent Carter and fled to the Southern California suburb of Costa Mesa.
  合法地改变了他的名字，他对卡特和艾伦文森特逃到南加州CostaMesa的郊区。
• A village of northeast illinois, an industrial suburb of Chicago on the Chicago river. population, 28284.
  奈尔斯美国伊利诺斯州东北部的一个村落，是芝加哥河沿岸芝加哥市的一个工业郊区。人口28284。
• Toward the suburb the houses begin to thin out.
  靠近市郊的地方房屋渐渐稀少。
• The farm ( which) we visited yesterday is located in the suburb of Beijing.
  我们昨天参观的那个农场位于北京郊区。