suburbs是什么意思？

suburbs

英['sʌbɜ:b] 美['sʌbɜb]

• n. 郊区，城郊( suburb的名词复数 )，四乡，隧，四郊；

例句

• out beyond the sprawling suburbs 杂乱无序的郊区外
• Community groups have expressed fears that criminals will be able to analyse suburbs and pinpoint vulnerable house, getaway routes and hiding places. 社区组织表达了担忧，他们担心罪犯能够借此分析近郊住宅区的情况，定位容易下手的房屋、逃跑路线以及藏身处。
• We rented a house in the suburbs. 我们在郊外租了一所房子。
• We'll move to the outer suburbs. 我们将搬到市郊。
• He rests in a cemetery in the western suburbs of Beijing. 他长眠于北京西郊的一个公墓中。
• They prefer living in the suburbs. 他们更愿意住在郊区。
• The general headquarters is in the suburbs. 司令部设在郊区。
• bedroom suburbs 专作住宅区的城郊
• New suburbs burgeoned all around the city. 城市周围新住宅区如雨后春笋般兴起.
• The train whooped out through the suburbs. 火车隆隆地驶过郊区.

同义词解析

• 以下这两个名词均有"郊区，近郊" 的意思
  outskirts：在现代英语中只用这个复数形式，通常指市区以外的地方。
  suburbs：侧重指与市区相接或相邻的居住区。

英语六级真题

That means wolves in the suburbs of New York.
出自-2013年12月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  城郊;郊区
  A suburb of a city or large town is a smaller area which is part of the city or large town but is outside its centre.
  例句
  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。 ...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 live in the suburbs, you live in an area of houses outside the centre of a large town or city.
  例句
  His family lived in the suburbs. 他家住在城郊。 ...Bombay's suburbs. 孟买城郊住宅区