英语词汇“hinterland”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	hinterland
释义	hin·ter·land \ˈhintə(r)ˌland, -laa(ə)nd\ noun Etymology: German, from hinter rear + land 1. a. : a region behind a coast or other usually specified place < the herdsmen have tended to avoid the immediate hinterland of the coast — Walter Fitzgerald > specifically : the territory extending inland from a coastal colony (as along a river system or to the recognized boundary of another territory) over which the colonial power is sometimes held to possess sovereignty b. : a region that provides supplies for the nation controlling it < the vast hinterland Nazi Germany has conquered in eastern and southern Europe — New Republic > c. : a region remote from cities and towns : wilderness < when this section, then a rough and rugged hinterland, was first being settled — American Guide Series: Minnesota > d. : a part of a country or region lying beyond any or all of its metropolitan or cultural centers : interior, sticks < by various profound thinkers in the hinterland and by their counterparts in New York — G.J.Nathan > < steer the American out of the capital cities abroad and into the hinterlands, into the country pubs and … village taverns — Horace Sutton > 2. : the area often including satellites of which a city is the economic or cultural center : an urban zone of influence < sometimes the hinterlands of different seaports overlap — W.G.Moore > 3. : a little-known sometimes contributory area of knowledge : frontier < a hinterland of surgery hitherto neglected by the regular practitioner — W.T.Stead > : background < taught … to read around a subject, to understand its hinterland — Hewlett Johnson >
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