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单词 suburban
释义
suburban
(səbɜːʳbən )
1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2
Suburban means relating to a suburb.
...a comfortable suburban home.
...a suburban shopping centre in Sydney.
2. graded adjective
If you describe something as suburban, you mean that it is dull and conventional.
His clothes are conservative and suburban.
...ghastly good taste and suburban gentility.
Synonyms: conventional, boring, conservative, dull  
Collocations:
suburban upbringing
He had an ordinary suburban upbringing in purley, surrey.
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I was 19 and had only ever fought against a suburban upbringing.
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She was a year into university and felt like her sheltered suburban upbringing had equipped her with paltry evidence of a personality.
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In my anonymous suburban upbringing no one was needed.
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suburban villa
The two pints of milk left at her suburban villa were untouched in the shade of the porch.
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By the early 20th century, the phrase 'suburban villa' was being uttered with a sneer, thanks to its overuse by housebuilders.
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The novelty of this suburban villa design can be discerned from its differences from that of a typical urban palazzo (palace).
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Suburban villas often feature brick and timber porches with gabled tiled roofs.
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The archaeological terrain has been being heavily destroyed since then to the present days (2008) by agricultural works and the building of suburban villas.
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Translations:
Chinese: 郊外的
Japanese: 郊外の
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