town

英[taʊn]美[taʊn]

n.城镇，市镇，小村庄，城镇居民，商业中心；

复数：towns;

例句

The village is connected by a bus service with the nearest town.公共汽车把该村与*近的市镇联系起来。

In recent years, the small town has enjoyed a bigger boom than ever.近年来这个小城镇比以往任何时候都更加繁荣。

The old couple will attempt to leave the town as soon as possible.这对老夫妇想尽快离开这个小城。

She farmed out the baby with her grandmother and went to work in town.她把婴孩给祖母抚养, 自己到城里去工作了。

No one in the town had heard of him.城里没有人知道他。

The history of the town dates back to the Middle Ages.这个城镇的历史可回溯到中世纪。

I knocked into my old teacher in the town this morning.我今天上午在镇上碰到了过去教过我的老师。

Brushing the enemy aside, we swept into the next town.我们击溃了敌人, 长驱直入下一个城池。

He left all his money to the town with the stipulation that it should be used to build a new football stadium.他把所有的钱都留给了该镇，条件是必须用这些钱来建一个新足球场。

The cold-blooded murder shocked the town.残忍的谋杀案使全城的人震惊。

英语六级真题

Students in university towns may also have access to another lever for involvement in accelerated math: math circles.

Biologist Jill Farrant of the University of Cape Town in South Africa says that nature has plenty of answers for people who want to grow crops in places with unpredictable rainfall.

It is a grim reality that you can have one person who only makes around 13,000 dollars a year, while across town another is making millions.

She was going to talk with slides about a town in the 18th century.

You go to a little town in Japan, where nobody speaks English, yet they know you on site and know all your music.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

镇;市镇；城镇

A town is a place with many streets and buildings, where people live and work. Towns are larger than villages and smaller than cities. Many places that are called towns in Britain would be called cities in the United States.

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N-UNCOUNT

自己居住的城镇

You use town in order to refer to the town where you live.

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N-UNCOUNT

市中心;(城镇的)商业中心；闹市区

You use town in order to refer to the central area of a town where most of the shops and offices are.

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N-SING

(与农村相对的)城市，都会

If you refer to the town, you are referring to town and city areas in general, as opposed to country areas.

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PHRASE

满腔热情地干;拼命地干

If you say that someone goes to town on something, you mean that they deal with it with a lot of enthusiasm or intensity.

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PHRASE

社交忙人;花花公子/时髦女郎

If you describe someone as a man about town or a woman about town, you mean that they are sophisticated, like to go out and spend money, and have a busy social life.

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PHRASE

(夜晚)在闹市区玩乐

If you go out on the town or go for a night on the town, you enjoy yourself by going to a town centre in the evening and spending a long time there visiting several places of entertainment.

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英汉词典释义

n.

镇, 市镇，集镇

城镇居民，市民

商业中心[闹市区]

（生活、工作或刚提到的）城镇；城市生活（与乡村生活相对）

英英词典释义

Noun

1. an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city;

2. an administrative division of a county;

3. the people living in a municipality smaller than a city;

行业词典

地理学： 镇；

法律： 城镇；集镇；乡镇；