| 释义 |
slurb orig. U.S.|slɜːb|
[App. f. sl- (as in sloppy, sleazy, etc.: see quot. 1962) + urban a., though later re-analysed as if from slum n.1 + suburb.]
An area of unplanned suburban development.
1962Wood & Heller California going, Going.{ddd} 10 The character and quality of such urban sprawl is readily recognizable... These are the qualities of most of our new urban areas—of our slurbs—our sloppy, sleazy, slovenly, slipshod semi-cities. 1966Guardian 22 Apr. 12/3 About 35 miles west of London there is a new town that no one knows about. It is in Berkshire, between Reading and Sandhurst, and it includes Wokingham and Crowthorne. It is what Californians, who have plenty of them, call a ‘slurb’—an amorphous and intermittent spread of houses. 1967Economist 8 July 120/2 The pattern which has turned Los Angeles into an ‘un-community’, into ‘twenty suburbs in search of a city’, into the archetypal ‘slurb’. 1979B. Ward Progress for Small Planet xxi. 235 The basic concept of ‘urban villages’ (the Chelseas, the Trasteveres, the Greenwich villages)..often allow a vitality and an attractiveness which the world's concrete suburban deserts, slurbs, and sprawls so demonstrably lack. |