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词汇 town-hall
释义 town hall
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌtaʊn ˈhɔːl/ us /ˌtaʊn ˈhɑːl/

town hallnoun[C] (BUILDING)


a building in which local government officials and employees work and have meetings镇公所;市政厅
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town hallnoun[C] (MEETING)


US
a public meeting at which a politician or official speaks about his or her policies and answers questions from members of the public: 市民大会,市政厅大会(政治家或领导人宣讲自己的政策和回答公众问题的集会)
Last week he spoke on the economy at a town hall in Austintown, Ohio. 上周他在俄亥俄州奥斯汀敦的市民大会上就经济问题发表了演说。
a town hall meeting一次市民大会

town hall | American Dictionary


town hall
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtɑʊn ˈhɔl/
a building in which local government officials and employees work and in which public meetings may be held

Examples of town hall


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Guideline developers and stakeholders convene regularly in a series of townhall-style meetings in which a guideline advisory committee serves as executive body.
All six had their own civic authority and, by the late nineteenth century, their own town council and townhall.
The stocks, for example, were usually located in front of the townhall, and a jail cell inside served to imprison disobedient burghers.
Yet, most of them were weak, dominated by, and dependent upon, the townhall.
To varying extents, the local (nightclub, pub, townhall, or council) remains crucial in helping to articulate knowledges and practices existing within their own 'reason'.
We see little of the contemporary dynamics, whether in the neighbourhood, townhall or cabinet office.
They stood at the town gates and in front of the townhall.
In the public sphere, the townhall and other civic buildings together with the ritual and aggregated privileges and practices of incorporation presented a vision of municipal independence.
Often enhancing a community consultation process, a selection of project work is exhibited in a local gallery or townhall at the conclusion of the studio.
At site 4, the mayor of the local authority lives more than 50 km from the townhall, and had not been in his office for over two months.
However, decisions in the townhall also had a tendency gradually to modify and to ameliorate uncontrolled practices so that they would be integrated into the formal world.
Where does he think the townhall will be, and how far does he think our people will be from it?
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I believe that it should be done locally, but not necessarily by the townhall.
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Generally, the townhall is in the centre, and round about it there is the natural, accumulated growth of rings of development.
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We will have to have a centrally situated townhall, which means that we shall have to spend money on it.
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