• n. 郊區(qū)；邊緣

sub-,在下，-urb,城市，詞源同 urban,urbane.引申詞義郊區(qū)，城鄉(xiāng)結合部。

suburb

suburb: see urban

suburb (n.)

early 14c., "area outside a town or city," whether agricultural or residential but most frequently residential, from Old French suburbe "suburb of a town," from Latin suburbium "an outlying part of a city" (especially Rome), from sub "below, near" (see sub-) + urbs (genitive urbis) "city" (see urban). Glossed in Old English as underburg. Just beyond the reach of municipal jurisdiction, suburbs had a bad reputation in 17c. England, especially those of London, and suburban had a sense of "inferior, debased, licentious" (as in suburban sinner, slang for "loose woman, prostitute"). By 1817, the tinge had shifted to "of inferior manners and narrow views." Compare also French equivalent faubourg.

[T]he growth of the metropolis throws vast numbers of people into distant dormitories where ... life is carried on without the discipline of rural occupations and without the cultural resources that the Central District of the city still retains. [Lewis Mumford, 1922]

1. Their ears were still attuned to the sounds of the London suburb.

他們依然很熟悉倫敦市郊的喧鬧聲。

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2. Margaret resides with her invalid mother in a London suburb.

瑪格麗特同她病弱的母親住在倫敦郊區(qū)。

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3. It had become almost a dormitory suburb of the city.

它幾乎成為了城市的一個市郊住宅區(qū)。

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4. Anna was born in 1923 in Ardwick, a suburb of Manchester.

安娜于1923年出生在曼徹斯特的郊區(qū)阿德維克。

來自柯林斯例句

5. a suburb of London

倫敦郊區(qū)

來自《權威詞典》