单词 | neighbourhood |
释义 | neighbourhood (neɪbəʳhʊd ) Word forms: neighbourhoods regional note: in AM, use neighborhood 1. countable noun B1 A neighbourhood is one of the parts of a town where people live. It seemed like a good neighbourhood to raise my children. Synonyms: district, community, quarter, region 2. countable noun B1+ The neighbourhood of a place or person is the area or the people around them. He was born and grew up in the Flatbush neighbourhood of Brooklyn. I feel a part of my immediate neighbourhood. 3. in the neighbourhood of phrase A place in the neighbourhood of another place is near it. ...the loss of woodlands in the neighbourhood of large towns. 4. in the neighbourhood of phrase In the neighbourhood of a number means approximately that number. He's won in the neighbourhood of four million dollars. Its speed is probably in the neighbourhood of 380mph or even more. Quotations: The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people Collocations: old neighbourhood Play it when ... you are returning to your old neighbourhood. Times,Sunday Times Surprisingly, visiting his old neighbourhood did not bring back bad memories. Times, Sunday Times One was back in my old neighbourhood: it had a huge living room, vast rooms in the basement but too dark for my taste. Times, Sunday Times He often returns to his old neighbourhood, despite his status and wealth. Times, Sunday Times Every once in a while, he revisits 'the old neighbourhood' with a group of his childhood friends. Times, Sunday Times Resources and services would, by law, have to be tilted towards poorer neighbourhoods. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Violence in Chicago focuses on the poor neighbourhoods in the south and west. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The city's poorest neighbourhoods remain largely deserted. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Obviously, it's a good idea to book hotel rooms in quiet neighbourhoods. Beat Jet Lag - arrive alert and stay alert (1991) The property stands in a cul-de-sac in a quiet neighbourhood. The Sun (2014) Beneath the surface of this quiet neighbourhood is an undercurrent of corruption. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Rebel groups have fired mortars and rockets at residential neighbourhoods, killing six people in an attack last Wednesday. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Unsurprisingly, the restaurant is in one of the capital's priciest residential neighbourhoods, near to the airport. Times, Sunday Times (2017) Hundreds of bail hostels are being opened in residential neighbourhoods without public consultation. Times, Sunday Times (2009) The five poets all come from the rough side of a rough neighbourhood, and their poetry makes for a boisterous read. The Times Literary Supplement What security posture should a new and fragile country adopt, in a very rough neighbourhood? The Times Literary Supplement No one seems to have any idea why, except that he was in a very rough neighbourhood. Times, Sunday Times I broke down in a rough neighbourhood at one o'clock in the morning and couldn't get the bike into a pick-up truck. Times, Sunday Times One time when we didn't pay the rent in an apartment in a really rough neighbourhood, they took off the front door to get rid of us. Times, Sunday Times The video also sees the group riding bicycles in the street of a suburban neighbourhood. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some photographs have already shown the charred remnants of suburban neighbourhoods - the streets carpeted with ash and populated with the skeletal remains of cars and homes. Times, Sunday Times On this small, crowded island, where suburban neighbourhoods feel like sardine cans, and garden-proud residents jealously guard tiny slices of land, hedges are increasingly coming between neighbours, in every sense. Globe and Mail Although they usually only breed in forests, hermit thrushes will sometimes winter in parks and wooded suburban neighbourhoods. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This fails to account for the city's changing demographic which has seen the growth of suburban neighbourhoods. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By his own account, he grew up in a tough neighbourhood. Times, Sunday Times Although it was a tough neighbourhood, it provided good sports facilities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Nine years after their inception, free schools were producing record-breaking results in tough neighbourhoods, he said. Times, Sunday Times That would give smart youngsters from tough neighbourhoods access to a top school - and drive up teaching in other local schools. Times, Sunday Times Others credit schemes to overcome the 'moral poverty' of fatherless homes and tough neighbourhoods. Times, Sunday Times She argued that the naturally evolving coarse grain of the urban neighbourhood was infinitely superior to planned regimentation. Times,Sunday Times Inner urban neighbourhoods will have to offer 'grown-up city living'- houses to buy, rather than flats to rent - and more, culturally, than clubs and shopping. Times, Sunday Times Some local authorities are making significant efforts to prevent this scenario by changing bedroom communities into multifunctional urban neighbourhoods. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Until a few years ago, this phenomenon existed in urban neighbourhoods too. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The other dormitories are smaller by capacity and scattered throughout the citys urban neighbourhoods. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The city's tax agency said that it was sending a drone over a wealthy neighbourhood to check whether the properties matched the owners' tax declarations. Times, Sunday Times That's us, the stressed guys in the wealthy neighbourhood. Times, Sunday Times We went to the same schools as each other, in wealthy neighbourhoods, about a 90-minute bus ride away. Times, Sunday Times Generally the wealthier neighbourhoods lie on sand, and the poorer neighbourhoods on peat. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 邻里 Japanese: 近所 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含147115条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。