suburbs

英 [ˈsʌbɜːbz]

美 [ˈsʌbərbz]

n.  郊区; 城外
suburb的复数

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

双语例句

• In the suburbs the spacious houses stand in stark contrast to the slums of the city's poor.
  郊区宽敞的房子与城市中的贫民窟形成了鲜明的对比。
• Entire suburbs have been reduced to rubble.
  整个市郊都变成了一片废墟。
• Olmert visited a China-Israel demonstration dairy farm in the eastern suburbs of Beijing two hours after his arrival.
  奥尔默特在到达后两小时参观了中国和以色列合办的位于北京东郊的示范农场。
• So you prefer living in the suburbs?
  这么说，你是更愿意住郊区了？
• I want to live in the suburbs.
  我想在郊区居住。
• She lives with her family in the suburbs of a major city.
  她和她家人住在大城市的郊区。
• The rebels shelled the densely-populated suburbs near the port.
  叛乱者炮轰了港口附近人口密集的郊区。
• They were beyond the last straggling suburbs now.
  他们现在已经远离了最远的零星分布的郊区了。
• I have lived in the Chicago suburbs all my life.
  我住在芝加哥郊区所有我的生活。
• His family moved to the suburbs.
  他的一家搬到了郊区。