neighborhood

英 ['neɪbə(r)ˌhʊd]

美 ['neɪbərˌhʊd]

n.  地区；某地区的人；与某处邻近的地区

复数：neighborhoods　

CET4考研TEM8

BNC.49659 / COCA.1134

英英释义

noun

• people living near one another
  1. it is a friendly neighborhood
  2. my neighborhood voted for Bush
  Synonym:neighbourhood
• a surrounding or nearby region
  1. the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville
  2. it is a rugged locality
  3. he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
  4. I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods
  Synonym:vicinitylocalityneighbourhoodneck of the woods
• an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
  1. an ethnic neighborhood
• the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
  1. it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job
  2. the price is in the neighborhood of $100
  Synonym:region

双语例句

• He was from an iffy neighborhood.
  他来自一个不怎么好的社区。
• It is a neighborhood beset by all the usual inner-city problems
  这是个为各种内城常见问题所困扰的社区。
• Really? We have a dentist in our neighborhood?
  真的吗？我们这里有牙医了？
• Listen to the sounds of your house, and the sounds of the neighborhood outside.
  倾听你房子的声音，和邻居和外面的声音。
• In Los Angeles, the neighborhood known as Watts erupted into riots
  在洛杉矶，一个叫做沃茨的街区爆发了动乱。
• Most of the families in this neighborhood are on welfare.
  这一带的大多数家庭都接受政府的福利救济。
• Her children had the best, most elaborate birthday parties in the neighborhood
  她的孩子们的生日聚会在街坊四邻里是最好、最讲究的。
• But then the neighborhood started to change, and I needed more space, and I wanted a corner.
  但是后来那个地方开始发生变化，我需要更大的空间，我想要一个街角的房子。
• The neighborhood is given over to performers, stilt walkers and drag queens.
  社区变成了玩杂耍的、踩高跷的和扮装皇后的天地。
• That's why you were in the neighborhood.
  这就是你住在这附近的原因。