suburb
UK ['sʌb.ɜ:b] US [-ɝ:b] noun
ADVANCED countable
■an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city often live 城郊；近郊住宅区•Box Hill is a suburb of Melbourne.博克斯希尔属于墨尔本的近郊住宅区。 •We drove from middle-class suburbs to a very poor inner-city area.我们从中产阶级的近郊住宅区驱车前往市中心的贫民区。 the suburbs [plural]
■the outer area of a town, rather than the shopping and business centre in the middle 郊区，城外•The company decided to relocate to the suburbs because the rent was much cheaper.公司决定搬到城郊去，因为那里的租金便宜得多。 |