| 单词 | town |
| 释义 | town (taʊn ) Word forms: towns 1. countable noun A1 A town is a place with many streets and buildings, where people live and work. Towns are larger than villages and smaller than cities. Many places that are called towns in Britain would be called cities in the United States. ...Saturday night in the small town of Braintree, Essex. [+ of] Parking can be tricky in the town centre. You can use the town to refer to the people of a town. The town takes immense pride in recent achievements. 2. uncountable noun A2 You use town in order to refer to the town where you live. He admits he doesn't even know when his brother is in town. She left town. ...attractive and fun loving Americans, new to town. 3. uncountable noun A2 You use town in order to refer to the central area of a town where most of the shops and offices are. I walked around town. I caught a bus into town. 4. singular noun A2 If you refer to the town, you are referring to town and city areas in general, as opposed to country areas. [mainly British] More people are going to want to escape from the town into the country. It had the advantages of town and country combined. 5. See also ghost town, hometown, new town 6. go to town phrase If you say that someone goes to town on something, you mean that they deal with it with a lot of enthusiasm or intensity. We really went to town on it, turning it into a full, three-day show. [+ on] The papers got hold of it and went to town on it. With £500 spending money for each couple, you can really go to town! 7. man about town phrase If you describe someone as a man about town or a woman about town, you mean that they are sophisticated, like to go out and spend money, and have a busy social life. He was known as a tall, handsome man about town. 8. on the town phrase If you go out on the town or go for a night on the town, you enjoy yourself by going to a town centre in the evening and spending a long time there visiting several places of entertainment. I used to love going out on the town and coming back in the early hours of the morning. Last Saturday, I was out on the town with my mate. Tim was just arriving home from a long night on the town. Quotations: God made the country, and man made the townThe Task Idioms: the only game in town the only option worth considering He's the only game in town, and I am hoping that he can show some real leadership strength. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers a one-horse town a town that is very small and uninteresting Lumut is something of a one-horse town, but you can always take a boat across to Pangkor island and look at Dutch ruins. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers go to town on something to deal with something with a lot of enthusiasm or energy They really went to town on the decorations for the party. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers paint the town red to go out and enjoy yourself Let's go out and paint the town red! Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: pretty town The headmaster of a school in a pretty town on the south coast was stunned when he arrived from his inner-city academy. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The seafood restaurants and fish and chip shops in the pretty town of Padstow are also within easy reach. Times, Sunday Times (2014) From here you head to Chipping Campden, a pretty town that once housed a thriving wool merchant trade, which will give you a taste of old England. Times, Sunday Times (2015) We drove to another medieval walled town and walked around it a bit. Times, Sunday Times It's a very attractive old walled town, with good hotels, lively nightlife and a beach. Times, Sunday Times Good food dominates this charming walled town, which has one of the best produce markets for miles and great cheese and chocolate shops. Times, Sunday Times A walled town with a two-mile-long beach. Times, Sunday Times The town became a small medieval walled town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Oh, to hell with the whole town, she suddenly cried, getting to her feet. ABOUT THE AUTHOR (2002) The whole town can be an open forum for thousands of activities. Times, Sunday Times (2017) `The whole town will be talking if you don't turn up in your glad rags. JUST BETWEEN US (2003) Then do it for the whole town as well and it will spread over the whole peninsular. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT He anchors his analysis in a portrait of the working-class town where he grew up. The Times Literary Supplement Specifically, the experience of growing up in a post-industrial, predominantly working-class town. Times, Sunday Times I grew up in a small working-class town and now live in a smallish suburb. Times, Sunday Times The song proved particularly popular in the working-class town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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