ghost town

英 [ˈɡəʊst taʊn]

美 [ˈɡoʊst taʊn]

n.  (曾一度繁华的)被废弃的城镇

牛津词典

noun

• （曾一度繁华的）被废弃的城镇
  a town that used to be busy and have a lot of people living in it, but is now empty

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 鬼城；繁华不再的废城
  Aghost townis a town which used to be busy and wealthy but is now poor and deserted.
  1. Mogadishu is said to be a virtual ghost town, deserted by two-thirds of its residents.
     摩加迪沙2/3的居民已弃城而去，据说已成了一座名副其实的废都。

英英释义

noun

• a deserted settlement (especially in western United States)

双语例句

• The bus is starting to roll down the rutted dirt road in Dongfa village, carrying the young worker and his wife away from this ghost town near the Russian border.
  中巴车开上东发村印满车辙的泥土路，载着这位年轻工人和他的太太离开这个靠近俄罗斯边界的穷乡僻壤。
• The place is starting to look like a ghost town.
  这里越来越变得跟幽灵镇一样可怕。
• After the romance of the Ming and Qing novel, the ghost town appears more mystery to people.
  经明清小说的渲染，丰都鬼城更加神秘怪诞。
• Is now a subterranean ghost town.
  现在已经是地下鬼城了。
• Whenever the early morning when the Golden Rooster Bell night wandering ghosts will go back to ghost town.
  每当清晨金鸡长鸣的时候，夜晚出去游荡的鬼魂必赶回鬼域。
• Bodi was built in1876, is a real American ghost town.
  伯帝建于1876年，是一座真实的美国鬼城。
• In30 minutes, this is a ghost town.
  30分钟后，这里将是一片废墟。
• The part I selected the town of Redding, Connecticut, through the governance and development of brown land so that the great rejuvenation of the ghost town suffering from pollution case.
  本部分笔者选取了康涅狄格州雷丁镇通过对褐色土地的治理开发从而使饱受污染的幽灵小镇走向伟大复兴的案例。
• Kenya's second-largest city, however, is hardly a ghost town.
  肯尼亚第二大城市几几乎成为了幽灵之城。
• Lassoo's a ghost town.
  拉苏现在是个鬼城了。