| 词汇 | ghost-town |
| 释义 | ghost town noun[ C ] uk /ˈɡəʊst ˌtaʊn/ us /ˈɡoʊst ˌtaʊn/ a town where few or no people now live被废弃的城镇 Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general) aerotropolis anti-city anti-urban boom town Brummie burgher Cantabrigian central city civic conurbation garden city metropolitan elite multi-city municipal native place non-municipal open city small-town smoke urbanite As is true with many ghost towns, people moved to Bodie originally because of gold. Some American ghost towns still have a little life in them. You can find small, forgotten towns, called ghost towns, in many places in the western part of the United States. ghost town | American Dictionaryghost town noun[ C ] us/ˈɡoʊst ˌtɑʊn/ a town that was busy in the past but is now empty or nearly empty because the activities that kept people there have stopped Examples of ghost townghost town On the contrary, my listening pleasure has derived from entering an operatic ghosttown. From then until late 1991, the ghosttown campaigns took on a new intensity. Transformation from brawny working-class city to ghosttown is the end point - the metaphoric death - in most of these narratives. Initially, when we arrived at the ghosttown sites, the many rusty objects and structures were lying around silently, telling us stories of their working life, of their function. It is a ghosttown where no one lives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has many of the attributes of a ghosttown. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If a railway workshop is taken away from a workshop town, that town soon becomes a ghosttown. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The area will be turned into a ghosttown. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Without it, the whole of docklands would have become a ghosttown and a depressed area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole of the top end is like a ghosttown, and those who are left are miserable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What was once a prosperous and thriving place with an extremely successful tourist industry is now a ghosttown. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A new town is neither a dormitory nor a ghosttown after working hours. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The area is becoming something approaching a ghosttown. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The town becomes a winter ghosttown—no one lives there, no one is seen there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has been described as a ghosttown; it is desolate, isolated and empty. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English See all examples of ghost town These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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