suburbs

柯林斯词典

suburb /ˈsʌbɜːb/ (suburbs)

1. N-COUNT A suburb of a city or large town is a smaller area which is part of the city or large town but is outside its centre. 市郊
Anna was born in 1923 in a suburb of Philadelphia. 安娜1923年出生在費城市郊。
2. N-PLURAL If you live in the suburbs, you live in an area of houses outside the centre of a city or large town. 郊區
His family lived in the suburbs. 他家住在郊區。