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单词

suburban

读音
səˈbɜːrbən
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词根

"Suburban" 是由 Latin 词根 "suburbium" 演变而来的,其中 "sub-" 表示 "下面或外面", "-urb-" 表示 "都市或城市"。 这个词根在其他单词中的应用包括 "urban" (城市的),"urbane" (有教养的,文雅的)。

释义

adj. 郊区的,城郊的;土气的;见闻不广的 n. 郊区居民

例句

And there isn't good public transportation from inner city Detroit to those suburban malls.
从底特律市中心到那些市郊的商场并没有好的公共交通。
Meg is a lawyer-mom in suburban Washington, D.C.
梅格是华盛顿郊区的一名律师妈妈。
At first sight it looked like a typical suburban road accident.
乍一看,这像是一起典型的郊区交通事故。

强化记忆

可以联想到一张郊区的图片:宽敞的房屋(sub- 下面的)周围环绕着绿色的草坪,这样就很容易记住这个单词"suburban"了。单词“suburban”最初出现在15世纪,用于形容在城市外的,直到19世纪,随着城市化速度的提升,这个单词更常用于描述城市周边的宁静住宅区。

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an invention that happened after the Second World War,suburban sprawl,clearly not compact, clearly not diverse, and it's not walkable,
And from the macro view, I saw 22-lane freeways,endless suburban sprawland water being diverted from parched rivers
I mean, look at the abandoned shopping malls in North America,suburban North America.Retail experts have predicted that in the next decade,
in our car-oriented,suburban-style neighborhoods.Well, this was an unbelievably ambitious idea,
And the worst idea we've ever hadis suburban sprawl.It's being emulated in many places as we speak.
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