| 单词 | ghost town |
| 释义 | > as lemmasghost town ghost town n. originally U.S. a town partially or completely devoid of its inhabitants; (in early use) esp. a former boom town that has been deserted as a result of the closing down of the industry or trade that sustained it. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > other types of town country town1598 post town1635 Residenz1824 garden town1835 Residenzstadt1841 hometown1851 tin town1884 ghost town1894 new town1918 shopping strip1935 twin town1955 1894 Times (Philadelphia) 22 Apr. 22/7 The dismantled place is now known as ‘Spookville’, and as the train whirls by the passenger who is looking for California curios is shown a tent on a hill—all that remains of the ghost town. 1916 Overland Monthly June 501 Her remembrances of the ‘ghost towns’ of Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Montana, when they were booming centers of activities, are intensely interesting. 1931 G. F. Willison Here they dug Gold 71 Today all lie ghost towns smelling of the long slow processes of ruin and decay. 1952 H. Innes Campbell's Kingdom i. iii. 51 Come Lucky was a rotten clutter of empty shacks. It was my first sight of a ghost town. 2020 New Yorker 30 Mar. 38/1 In the week that followed, New York became a ghost town in a ghost nation on a ghost planet. < as lemmas |
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