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

• But then, a greedy young man in his neighborhood heard the news.
  但是，他邻居的一个贪婪的年轻人听到了这个消息。
• When I was quite young my family had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood.
  当我十分小的时候，我的家有了在我家附近最早的一部电话。
• 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。
• The whole neighborhood have been hunting for the missing child.
  整条街的人都在寻找那个失踪的孩子。
• This week, I got to know my neighborhood.
  这星期，我逐渐了解了我的社区。
• 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。
• 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。
• The rabbits in our backyard were a magnet that attracted all the children in the neighborhood.
  我家后院的兔子像磁铁一样吸引着邻居所有的孩子。
• Our neighborhood has recently become a yuppie gathering place.
  我们附近最近变成了一个雅皮士聚集的场所。