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

• Kids in his neighborhood clipped his picture from the newspaper and carried it around.
  附近的孩子们从报纸上剪下他的照片，到哪儿都带着。
• He is street smart and is not afraid of this neighborhood.
  他有都市人的精明劲儿，不怕在这附近混。
• Really? We have a dentist in our neighborhood?
  真的吗？我们这里有牙医了？
• He was from an iffy neighborhood.
  他来自一个不怎么好的社区。
• Today, I was jogging around the neighborhood when I went past a bar.
  今天我慢跑的时候，路过了一个酒吧。
• 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。
• He had a beautiful house in a beautiful neighborhood.
  他的一座漂亮的房子和漂亮的社区。
• 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。
• This was a neighborhood where clearly you could be murdered for a pack of cigarettes, a fact that was not lost on me.
  显然，在这个街区你可能会因为一包香烟而遭人杀害。这个事实我不是没注意到。
• 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。