| 词汇 | example_english_amenity |
| 释义 | Examples of amenityThese 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. Instead, new social movements have organised around issues as diverse as gender, environment, urban inequalities, traveller issues, social amenities, service charges and so on. The concerns revolve around their audiences' appraisal of the amenities and proximity of the theatre. Clearly, air attacks on city centres which provided essential amenities to nearby working-class communities severely damaged civilian morale in these areas. Builders often could not afford to pave streets and provide the other amenities needed if they were to build houses on suburban ®elds. The argument has been invoked in the main for amenities. The second home was customarily smaller, had fewer amenities and regarded as supplementary. Each dwelling is accessed from an urban street side and opens out onto a shared landscape which includes amenities for passive and active recreation. The new funding has helped to improve the condition, standards and amenities of temporary accommodation for single homeless people. In the more middle class areas overcrowding and shared amenities more often referred to bedsitter accommodation for students. In addition, expenditure on housing and community amenities, as well as other community and social services, provided substantial benefits to the poor and disadvantaged. Whether the proportion of expenditure devoted to environmental amenities increases with rising income is an empirical matter, and little is known. One explanation of this finding is that people in poor countries cannot afford to emphasize amenities over material well-being. Not every impact from climate change (especially those related to biodiversity, human health, and social amenities) can be easily identified using monetary units. They faced the challenge of providing modern amenities and adapting the urban form to solve problems of overcrowding and unsanitary dwellings. The main preoccupation of much of the current research is with the proper way of measuring environmental amenities. Villages and country towns reflect a human scale and proximity to those local services and amenities that do exist. They organised, and paid for, most of the basic amenities they needed. I also assume that national accounts are comprehensive by including the effects of environmental amenities and natural resource depletion as well as technological progress. In general, the standard of housing and sanitation was poor, and public amenities inadequate. Even if amenities are within walking distance, access may be difficult. However, when a country has attained a sufficiently high standard of living, people care more about amenities. His model does allow income to increase willingness to pay for pollution reduction (or equivalently for amenities). However, when more profitable lands also provide more environmental amenities per hectare, the targeting of cheaper lands by the program may misfire. There is no evidence that trade causes a decrease in the rural population or a loss of amenities in rural communities. They noted the general upkeep of the various blocks in the tract and the amenities such as parks, landscaping, and street repair. The on-site amenities and communal spaces enhanced the opportunities for social interaction. The rapid expansion of cheap and frequent transport services between the towns and neighbouring villages enabled rural dwellers to avail themselves of the urban amenities. The walks were also promoted by the council's countryside service, and regular adverts were placed in local newspapers and posters displayed at community amenities. Many railwaymen, however, also had to travel away from home temporarily when they worked on longdistance trains, spending their nights in rest houses with only basic amenities. The study found evidence of high levels of satisfaction among residents with these amenities, and the opportunities for involvement, even if inevitably the level was highly variable. In contrast, we found no consensus on the relevant amenities of the residence where they lived, nor the amount of social distance from staff or other residents. On the other hand, increases in wages, broadening of offfarm opportunities, or emergence of markets in environmental amenities (such as sequestered carbon) could take pressure off forests. As a consequence, the role of the environment is differently perceived, either as a requisite for economic growth or as the provider of essential consumer services or amenities. They desperately wanted all the social amenities that went with a bridewealth marriage, but were unwilling to let the importance of bridewealth overshadow the importance of consent. However, local landscapes must supply space, ecological services and other amenities that cannot be imported but which are required to sustain the economy of local populations. Consequently, the value of environmental quality must be inferred from changes in behaviour, making it quite difficult to estimate the impact of income on the value of such amenities. Improvements in incomes will mean that the immediate problems of day-to-day survival will be alleviated, and therefore the demand for amenities like cleaner air and water will grow. The physical and architectural features scale incorporates the domains of community accessibility, physical amenities, social and recreational aids, space availability, safety features, staff facilities, orientational aids and prosthetic aids. The population of most of the interior's provincial capitals is less than three hundred thousand ; small towns outside of the provincial capital have still fewer amenities. Thus, perhaps to a greater extent than in developed countries, the ability to obtain and to enjoy these facilities and amenities depends on the educational attainment of the individual. Such communities may also lack health-related amenities, such as grocery stores that offer quality foodstuffs and safe outdoor areas or community centers for recreation and exercise. Following the loss of a spouse, many older people turn to the social or private rental sectors in town centres or other areas close to local amenities. The analysis assumes that national accounts are comprehensive (in particular 'greened' by taking into account environmental amenities and natural resource depletion), but does not assume optimal resource allocation. Flows which directly affect utility, such as consumption goods and flows of environmental amenities, are evaluated at market prices if available and otherwise by imputing shadow prices. However, publicly financed amenities such as education, crime prevention, transportation, and urban services (water supply, solid waste service, etc.) have also fallen as local financial resources have declined. The state partly agreed to these demands and to provide civic amenities in labor colonies, but it would not agree on the issue of suspending the responsible officials. The different types of accommodation tend to be geographically segregated with regard to tenure, price, size and neighbourhood amenities, leading to a sorting of the population. Stereotypically, the rich own agricultural land, modern consumer goods like televisions, telephones and quality furniture, and live in brick-built houses with tiled floors and modern amenities. Exclusive use of all amenities 28. I shall then give notice of the scheme to the persons named as being responsible for providing and maintaining the welfare amenities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are many measures of deprivation, including unemployment, children in poverty, housing, amenities, overcrowding, educational participation and attainment, benefit dependency and crime rate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After all, when we talk of the completion of a new town we do not mean the new town without its amenities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are greatly interested in this question, just as much as are the amenities interests. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The amenities out there have been greatly improved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are anxious that the amenities should not be by any means interfered with. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will have all the amenities of a front door. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The amenities societies and everybody else have their say, and probably there is a public inquiry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they were to be opposed it would surely lead to a sinister suggestion: does anybody really propose to affect the existing amenities? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The second one can be put in general terms under the heading of amenities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, our public conscience about amenities was barely awake. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 More pertinently, they are such as to be virtually useless to those most needing assistance—illiterate and over-crowded peoples without privacy or domestic amenities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The cost of such a caravan would be £1,800, but with fewer amenities it comes down to £700. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On the other hand, you have the public interest in the possibly threatened amenities of the countryside. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think what is troubling the amenities societies is the position of a green that is not technically a common. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, will there be any interference with the amenities of the neighbourhood? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The first problem is the raw sewage that is discharged into the sea and its effect on bathing amenities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All residents may benefit from such services and amenities, irrespective of whether they personally paid rates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In almost every village in my constituency, people want amenities that will improve their quality of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A number of tin sheds have been erected, and from an aesthetic point of view the amenities of the place are very much destroyed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The question of amenities comes very much into this aspect. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want to surrender the amenities of life merely because of that which is called progress. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think we can rest assured that this matter is fairly well covered, so far as amenities are concerned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have to try to strike a balance here, as one always must between rival interests—a choice between convenience and amenities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Against the admitted advantages of opencast there are also, of course, admittedly, certain grave disadvantages, both as regards agriculture and as regards amenities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can see that if the work is done properly the amenities will not suffer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The money should be used for improving the amenities and the parks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In this country, small as it is and highly industrialised, it is becoming nearly impossible to find lines that suit the broad ideas of amenities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that it was taken for granted that no public authority could possibly be oblivious to the importance of the amenities of the countryside. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How can we possibly stop the drift from the land unless we make a reasonable attempt to provide decent housing and ordinary civilised amenities? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No information is held centrally on dwellings fit but lacking basic amenities or on non-standard dwellings in need of renovations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should have thought they have something to do with amenities—accessibility, for example. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The wording here is: "amenities required by a resident community". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are always very many people to leap to the defence of the amenities of the countryside in matters like this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must have better housing conditions, water, electricity and all the amenities, but even that is not enough. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps he would tell us how those are dealt with, because they are essential amenities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Households aged 75 and over are more likely to live in unfit homes and lack basic amenities than other household types. Neither scores for amenities nor those for aids are related to work satisfaction patterns in this sample. He measures the conditions and amenities considered to be" customary" in terms of 60 indicators of an approved standard of living. There are obviously wide differences in the provision of social amenities and social services. In many developing societies the lack of basic amenities, such as clean water and proper sanitation, produces an inherently unsafe environment. When applying a consumer price index in models with environmental amenities, it is important to take the relative price changes of such amenities into account. However, when a country has attained a sufficiently high standard of living, people give greater attention to environmental amenities. An illustration of the model shows that watershed conservation projects may have very high payoffs, even before assessing existence values and other forest amenities. Such programs are also known as programs of payments for environmental amenities, conservation payments, and environmental service payments. Domestic work remained especially arduous since, even in the 1970s, a large part of rural housing lacked basic amenities. Pull factors are those that attract people to new environments, such as proximity or ease of access to amenities or families. The bulk of the money went on the addition of amenities and not on structural repairs. Existing trees dictated the retaining wall at the rear, which deals with the kitchen amenities. The provision of council housing has had an equalising effect both as regards reducing overcrowding and improving housing amenities among working-class people. Local authorities face strong pressure from their ratepayers" to preserve local amenities and property values", to which caravans are seen as a threat. 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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