| 释义 |
out-of-townˌout-of-ˈtown adjective [only before noun]   - an out-of-town shopping centre
- The museum attracts a lot of out-of-town visitors.
- Town centre shops face a threat from large out-of-town developments which offer hundreds of shops under one roof.
- Matalan, the out-of-town discount retailer, took the biggest hit.
- Now most of her contacts were out-of-town businessmen, far more scared of comebacks than she'd ever have to be.
- The Direction was issued in response to growing concern at the spread of large, out-of-town retail developments, some on greenfield sites.
- These hotels are a new addition to Kuoni's hotel programme, which previously concentrated on deluxe and out-of-town accommodation.
- Until now Gary had been an out-of-town designer, of course.
- We are not convinced that the attraction of out-of-town shopping is entirely a response to consumer demand.
the areas at the edge of a town or city► suburb an area around the edges of a city, where many people live because it is quieter and there is more space than in the centre: suburb of: · I was born and brought up in a suburb of New York City.the suburbs: · More and more people are moving to the suburbs every year.· All the social workers come in from their comfortable homes in the suburbs.a wealthy/middle-class/respectable etc suburb: · They have just bought a house in Pacific Palisades, a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles. ► outskirts the area around the edge of a city or just outside it: · The Cité De Science is a futuristic complex in the Parisian outskirts.on the outskirts: · His body was discovered on the city's outskirts three days later.the outskirts of Tokyo/London etc: · By 9 o'clock we reached the outskirts of Berlin.the outskirts of town: · There are plans to build a new shopping mall on the outskirts of town. ► out-of-town British out-of-town shops, cinemas etc are built outside a town, so that people from the town have to drive to them: · an out-of-town shopping centre· Town centre shops face a threat from large out-of-town developments which offer hundreds of shops under one roof. ► urban sprawl a large area of buildings, factories etc around the edges of a city that used to be countryside - use this to describe places that are ugly, noisy, or unpleasant: · At that time, little was done to control the urban sprawl.· The natural habitats of Britain's wildlife have been ravaged by urban sprawl and pollution. 1to, from, or in another town:  out-of-town visitors2British English on the edge of a town: out-of-town shopping centres |