| 词汇 | suburb |
| 释义 | suburb noun uk /ˈsʌb.ɜːb/ us /ˈsʌb.ɝːb/ B2[ C ] an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city often live: 城郊;近郊住宅区 Box Hill is a suburb of Melbourne.博士山属于墨尔本的近郊住宅区。 We drove from middle-class suburbs to a very poor inner-city area.我们从中产阶级的近郊住宅区驱车前往市中心的贫民区。 the suburbs[ plural ] the outer area of a town, rather than the shopping and business centre in the middle: 郊区，城外 The company decided to relocate to the suburbs because the rent was much cheaper.公司决定搬到城郊去，因为那里的租金便宜得多。 a leafy suburb a middle-class suburb of New York纽约中产阶级郊区 It's a suburb of Manchester really - I wouldn't call it Manchester proper. We live in a suburb of London. I grew up in a very middle-class suburb of Birmingham. Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities anti-development arrondissement backstreet backstreets borough botanic garden business park Chinatown housing estate industrial estate inner ring marketplace midtown non-residential old town outer ring plaza skid uptown wasteland suburb | American Dictionarysuburb noun[ C ] us/ˈsʌb·ɜrb/ an area outside a city but near it and consisting mainly of homes, sometimes also having stores and small businesses: [ pl ]Most of the people who live in the suburbs work in the city. suburbanadjectiveus/səˈbɜr·bən/ He grew up in a wealthy suburban community near Chicago. suburb | Business Englishsuburb noun[ C ] uk /ˈsʌbɜːb/us an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city often live: The publishing company relocated out of central London to the suburbs. She opened a new location in the Dallas suburb of Richardson. Examples of suburbsuburb Studies of suburbs and cities must combine the mutual interaction of socio-cultural formations and the built form. All participants attended preschool programmes in the suburbs of a major metropolitan area. All of us believe that restrictive covenants were a critical element in the social composition and design of the suburbs. During the 1930s a powerful stimulus to the rise of post-war corporate suburbs was initiated. A new building type was coming to the suburbs. There seem to have been at least four bakehouses within the town walls, and two more in the northern suburbs. Attitudes to the suburbs were expressed in discussions related to piped water supply and sewerage, especially the extension of water. Nevertheless, the city's population continued to increase and new suburbs developed outside the original town walls. The city pursued parallel programmes of building high-rise flats both in the central areas on slum cleared land and in its suburbs on greenfield sites. Despite having removed to the suburbs, nonconformists continued to worship in city centre chapels. Immigrants living on these streets moved to the newly built suburbs or elsewhere in town. Owning a car made it possible to live in the suburbs and drive to work. As for samples collected in the city centre, those from western suburbs in residential districts remain differentiated whatever the period examined. Most inhabitants of the new suburbs, however, were not foreign-born. The monolingual children were attending childcare programs in middle-class suburbs of a large city. See all examples of suburb 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. Collocations withsuburbsuburbThese are words often used in combination with suburb. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. affluent suburb Environmental disaster makes no distinction, for example, between the sink estate and the affluentsuburb. eastern suburbs These sub-loops allowed more direct journeys to the city centre from the eastern suburbs giving the overall scheme greater viability. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. industrial suburb Rocklea is a mostly industrialsuburb, being the home to many large firms from a range industries. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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. See all collocations with suburb |
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