英:[ˈaʊtskɜːts]
美:[ˈaʊtskɜːrts]
英:[ˈaʊtskɜːts]
美:[ˈaʊtskɜːrts]
out·skirts
aUt skuhrts
Noun
1. outlying areas (as of a city or town);
"they lived on the outskirts of Houston"
"they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd"
这组词都有“郊区、近郊”的意思,其区别是:
suburbs侧重指与市区相接或相邻的居住区。
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。
以上来源于网络
The first known use of outskirt was circa 1599
1 When I met you on the outskirts of town.
当我再一次在小镇的郊外与你相会.
2 On the outskirts of Chernobyl , in a town called Chernigov, stands a children's cancer hospital.
在切尔诺贝利的郊区的一个名为切尔尼科夫的小镇子, 在镇子里耸立着一座儿童癌症医院.
3 So when the ship docked at the harbour in Piraeus, on the outskirts of Athens, Piper resisted the urge to breathe a sigh of relief.
4 Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.
我们的汽车在市郊出了故障.
5 At the outskirts Sam gave them detailed directions to the Placement Office.
6 Eventually, CIA analysts discovered that the trench connected the Soviet Ministry of Defense with a closely guarded installation on the outskirts of the city: the Krasnaya Pakhra Nuclear Weapons Research Institute.
7 I popped onto a dirt hill on the outskirts of Mexico City.
我一头撞到了墨西哥郊外的一个土山上。
8 At the outskirts of town a little boy came bursting out of a house with his shoes off, and his mother came bursting out after him.
9 The ruined streets on the city's outskirts were unlit.
城市郊区破败不堪的街道上没有路灯。
10 Diversity favors remote borders, the outskirts , hidden corners, moments of chaos, and isolated clusters.
差异常发生在遥远的边疆, 郊外, 秘密角落, 混沌状态以及孤立的簇中.
11 The virtueless girl's duty is to were h the dirty shirts and skirts in the outskirts.
无美德女宝宝的职责根本那是在郊区洗脏衬衣和裙子.
12 The competition was to take place on the outskirts of London at a private boys’ school in an area called South Croydon.
13 Moscow's exclusive outskirts look like American suburban shopping malls writ large, yet villages away lie abandoned.
莫斯科的专属区看上去如美国郊区的购物中心一般气派, 而不远处的乡村却遭到抛弃.
14 He likes to sit alone in a trance in the cold and silent outskirts of town.
他喜欢在清寂的郊外独自发呆.
15 The squalor of that little house on the outskirts of the pueblo!
16 Before the train had left the outskirts of London he behaved true to form and began a conversation.
一如往常,列车还没驶出伦敦郊区,他就开始和别人聊起天来。
17 They left two days later, the man limping along behind the cart and the boy keeping close to his side until they cleared the outskirts of the town.
18 Even living on the outskirts of a major city can mean poor signal.
即使生活在大城市的郊区,信号都可能很弱。
19 One early morning they persuaded Silver to come with them and traveled over a mile to the outskirts of Kingsclere, returning with a tale of mischief and feasting in a cottage garden.
20 One is on the outskirts of Beijing, underneath looming cooling towers the Gaobeidian Huaneng power plant.
它们当中一个设于北京郊区,北京高碑店华能电厂的冷却塔的下方.