名 city wall，wall，city，town ；

[例句] 詹姆斯·福克斯以《欲望城》一书最为出名. James Fox is best known as the author of White Mischief.

[例句] 这是个为各种内城常见问题所困扰的社区。 It is a neighborhood beset by all the usual inner-city problems.

city，town，conurbation，garden city；

[例句] 列宁格勒是他在异地安家的第三个外国城市。 Leningrad was the third alien city to offer him a surrogate home.

[例句] 城市已被猛烈的炮火夷为平地。 The city has been flattened by heavy artillery bombardments.

town，cities and towns ；

[例句] 原来的居民可能会认不出这个崭新的城镇了。 The new town would have been unrecognisable to the original inhabitants.

[例句] 各公司正在把工作岗位转移至生活费用较低的城镇。 Companies are moving jobs to towns with a lower cost of living.

outskirts，suburb，outskirts of a town ；

[例句] 城郊的新住宅楼发展得十分迅速. New housing estates have mushroomed on the edge of the town.

[例句] 兵逼城郊. The troops drove near the outskirts of the town.

castle，town，tower，barbacan，alcazar；

[例句] 卢埃林登上台阶，走进城堡主楼。 Llewelyn was mounting the stairs up into the keep.

[例句] 他正骑着马寻找那座城堡。 He was riding on his horse looking for the castle.

urbanization ；

[例句] 伴随着城市化的推进，贫富间的对立情绪也加剧了。 With urbanisation the antagonism between rich and poor sharpened.

[例句] 城市化的另一重要因素是全国人口的不断增加. Equally important to urbanization, the nation's population was increasing.

(city) wall，circumvallation，rampart ；

[例句] 这座城市建在岩石上，四周筑有城墙。 The city was walled and built upon a rock.

[例句] 一段石阶从鹅卵石路上一直向上直通城墙。 A number of staircases ascend from the cobbled streets onto the ramparts.

encircle a city，besiege a city，（被围城市） besieged city，[电影]State of Siege；

[例句] 在围城过程中,这座城市被摧毁了. The city was thrown down during the siege.

[例句] " 自从围城以后,你就一直待在亚特兰大 吗 ? " Have you been living in Atlanta ever since the siege? "

[法]Fidelcot，[法]First Pennsylvania Corporation，[法]Philadelphia；

[例句] 班克是一名38岁的单身汉，在费城长大。 Bank is a 38-year-old singleton who grew up in Philadelphia.

[例句] 一份由联邦储备银行的费城分部汇编的报告说经济不景气。 A report compiled by the Fed's Philadelphia branch described the economy as weak.

battlement ；

[例句] (指建筑)有炮塔和城垛的城堡样式. Furnished with turrets and battlements in the style of a castle.

[例句] 目前只发现城垛 、 城门各三处. Currently only found battlements, gates of all three.

enceinte ；

[例句] 睐江河之蜿蜿兮城廓之崇崇 ﹒. I see rivers crawling away , ho , and city walls rising up tall.

[例句] 护寺城廓之高墙隔绝了闹市的喧嚣, 使环境更臻幽雅. Retaining walls of the temple wall of noise isolation from the busy streets, elegant environment better.

oppidan ；

[例句] 现在城里人很讲究穿而且穿得很时髦. Nowadays, everyone in the city was very clothes - conscious and fashionable.

[例句] 城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐. City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.

castellar ；

[例句] 他下令修建连接各地城堡的道路。 He commanded that roads be built to link castles across the land.

[例句] 在城堡的进门处,守着两个凶猛的怪物. Two fierce griffins guarded the entrance to the castle.

[法] urban ；

[例句] 那座城市的街道肮脏不堪，弥漫着令人窒息的废气。 The city's streets are filthy and choked with exhaust fumes.

[例句] 城市的一整片贫民区被炸为了平地。 An entire poor section of town was bombed into oblivion.

outside the city，out of town；

[例句] 他乘车前往城外鲍勃的公寓。 He rode uptown and made his way to Bob's apartment.

[例句] 我们的部队就在城外与敌人交火. Our troops joined with enemy forces just outside the city.

Motor City，Motown；

[例句] 依托上海国际汽车城国际平台. Based on the global platform of Shanghai International Automobile City.

[例句] 他在高校毕业后就开始在这个汽车城工作. He started working at Motown right after high school.

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[例句] 在这座被毁坏的城市里，最重要的建筑物之一就是公共澡堂。 One of the most important buildings in this ruined city is a public bath.

[例句] 我住在一座古老的城镇里,城镇的四周都是美丽的树林. I live in a very old town which is surrounded by beautiful woods.

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[例句] 那将军命令部下攻城. The general commanded his men to attack the city.

[例句] 他率领主力部队攻城. He led the main strength of his army against the city.

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[例句] 原来的居民可能会认不出这个崭新的城镇了。 The new town would have been unrecognisable to the original inhabitants.

[例句] 各公司正在把工作岗位转移至生活费用较低的城镇。 Companies are moving jobs to towns with a lower cost of living.

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[例句] 到中国城在哪儿乘车? Where can I catch a bus to go to Chinatown?

[例句] 到中国城乘8路. Change at Chinatown, and get an 8.