| 单词 | rural |
| 释义 | rural (once / 348 pages) adj Rural means "relating to or characteristic of the country or the people who live there." If you move to a rural area, you won't see a lot of skyscrapers or taxis — but you'll probably see a lot of trees. You may have known people who live on country roads––mail to their houses must be addressed to a rural route, abbreviated as RR. Rustic is a near synonym but emphasizes the supposed qualities of country people: being simple, awkward, and even rude and rough. The adjective rural descends from Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rūrālis, from rūs "the country." WORD FAMILYrural: ruralism, rurality, rurally+/ruralism: ruralist/ruralist: ruralists/rurality: ruralities USAGE EXAMPLESBut some lawmakers, particularly Republicans and those representing more rural parts of the state, say they are not enthusiastic about increasing child-care aid. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) Getting people in rural areas onto the national grid is proving too difficult and traditional solar panels generate meagre amounts of energy. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Three of the four will spend time in prison for the fires in rural parts of Wood County south of Toledo. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj living in or characteristic of farming or country life rural people large rural households unpaved rural roads an economy that is basically rural Syn|Ant agrarian, agricultural, farming relating to rural matters agrestic, rusticcharacteristic of the fields or country arcadian, bucolic, pastoral(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic campestralof fields or open country countrified, countryfied, rusticcharacteristic of rural life country-bredrough and uncouth country-styletypical of the country cracker-barrel, folksy, homespuncharacteristic of country life hobnailedmarked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails urban located in or characteristic of a city or city life citified, city-born, city-bred, cityfiedbeing or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person city-likeresembling a city urbanised, urbanizedmade urban in nature; taking on urban characteristics 2adj of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city rural electrification rural free delivery |
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