| 词汇 | downtown |
| 释义 | downtown adjective[ before noun ], adverb USuk /ˌdaʊnˈtaʊn/ us /ˌdaʊnˈtaʊn/(UKcentral, centrally) A2 in or to the central part of a city: 在市中心（的）;朝市中心（的） downtown Los Angeles洛杉矶市中心 a downtown address市内地址 I work downtown, but I live in the suburbs.我在城里上班，但住在郊区。 The regeneration of the city's downtown dock front will put it on a par with Nice or Cannes.市中心临码头地区重建后，该市将能与尼斯或戛纳相媲美。 He works in an office tower in downtown San Francisco.他在旧金山市中心的一座高层写字楼里工作。 Vandals smashed windows and overturned cars in the downtown shopping district.捣乱分子在市中心的商业区砸烂窗户并掀翻汽车。 I've got a meeting downtown in 20 minutes so I'll have lunch on the hoof.20分钟后我在市中心还有个会，所以只好在路上顺便吃午饭了。 We bought a tourist guide to downtown Seattle before we left. 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 downtown noun[ U ] USuk /ˌdaʊnˈtaʊn/ us /ˌdaʊnˈtaʊn/(UKcity centre) the central part of a city: 市中心 The hotel is situated two miles north of downtown.酒店在市中心以北两英里处。 Compare uptownUS 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 downtown | American Dictionarydowntown adjective, adverb[ not gradable ] us/ˈdɑʊnˈtɑʊn/ in or to the business or central part of a city: downtown Los Angeles downtownnoun[ U ]us/ˈdɑʊnˈtɑʊn/ The hotel is situated two miles north of downtown. downtown | Business Englishdowntown adjective[ before noun ], adverb uk /ˌdaʊnˈtaʊn/us in or to the central part of a city: downtown Los Angeles a downtown address Downtown business interests say that restoration would be too costly. I work downtown, but I live in the suburbs. downtownnoun[ C or U ] The hotel is situated two miles north of downtown. The bustling downtowns are surrounded by upscale shopping centers and malls. Examples of downtowndowntown Go downtown to watch a movie with the other kids. By the 1970s, marketing strategies that appealed to housewives no longer sustained downtown real estate values. The gang's vehicle was later seen drawing up in front of a hotel downtown. Both authors suggest that downtown, though often frayed at the edges or stripped of its once appealing attractions, is a recognizable place. Instead, he wants to 'get people thinking about what makes a good downtown and why' (preface). Such armed resistance effectively contained the worst of the violence downtown. Assistants went to a public setting - a market or a downtown street - and selected a random sample: every fourth stall, office or dwelling, for example. On a downtown street corner of the modern city there is no distance; there is only presence. Separation of work and home brought the need for lunch pails and downtown restaurants. Thus, it is surprising that the sampling method used in this study (i.e. sampling from downtown areas) was so crude. The public areas included park playgrounds, where 142 samples were taken from five playgrounds, one playground per park, located downtown. There were many cinemas downtown, but only white people were welcome. The two chains were frequent neighbors at many malls and in many downtowns. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A 1969 redevelopment plan identified the obsolete street plan and lack of quality parking as a source of downtown's problems. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Consolidation within the retail industry led to the closing of many of downtown's original department and specialty stores as well. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of downtown 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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