| 单词 | outskirts |
| 释义 | outskirts (once / 1142 pages) n Some people like to live downtown. Others prefer the open spaces of the suburbs. But if you live in between the two, you are in the outskirts, the place where the city ends and the suburbs begin. Outskirts describes the outer edge of a city or town, farthest from the center but still technically part of that place. If you had a city map, you could draw a line on all sides where crowded streets filled with apartment building and businesses begin to give way to single-family houses and country roads. You might not get a perfect circle but you will see that outskirts are those border places between the city and the little towns that surround it. WORD FAMILYoutskirt: outskirts USAGE EXAMPLESAlthough Affleck was born in California, his family moved to Cambridge on the outskirts of Boston when he was two. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Another suggestion is to bar American diplomats from using their summer retreat on the outskirts of Moscow and a warehouse south of Moscow. Time(Dec 30, 2016) Another suggestion is to bar U.S. diplomats from using their summer retreat on the outskirts of Moscow and a warehouse in the south of Moscow. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) n outlying areas (as of a city or town) they lived on the outskirts of Houston they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd Hyper section a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people |
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