喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ˈaʊtskɜːrts/ · /ˈaʊtskɜːts/市郊；外圍

    The parts of a town or city that are from the centre, where the streets and buildings start to run out and open land begins.

    示範例句 · Example

    Our hotel was on the outskirts of Kyoto, about thirty minutes by bus from the city centre.

    逐字我們的旅館在京都的外圍，距離市中心大約三十分鐘的公車車程。

    outskirts 可以想成一個城鎮的「外圈」——從市中心往外走，房子越來越少、街道越來越短，接著就是農田或山。因為它指的是一整圈地帶而不是一個點，所以永遠是複數，也幾乎都跟 the 一起出現：on the outskirts of Taipei（在台北外圍）。它跟 suburb 容易搞混：suburb 用在一個有名字、住人的社區（a suburb of 台中），可以數；outskirts 用在整個外緣地帶，不拿來數。

    常見搭配

    • on the outskirts of something

      在…的外圍、市郊

      in the outer parts of a town or city, away from the centre

      Mei's grandparents live on the outskirts of Tainan.

    • the outskirts of a city / town

      城市／城鎮的外圍

      the outer edge of a city or town

      By nine o'clock we could see the outskirts of the city ahead of us.

    • live on the outskirts

      住在市郊

      to have your home in the outer part of a town or city

      Many families live on the outskirts and travel into the centre to work.

    • reach the outskirts (of)

      抵達外圍、開到市郊

      to arrive at the outer edge of a town or city

      We reached the outskirts of the city just as the sun came up.

    • the northern / western outskirts

      北邊／西邊的外圍

      the outer part on one particular side of a town or city

      The airport is on the southern outskirts of the city.

    意思相近

    edgesuburbsfringesperipheryenvirons

    意思相反

    centrecity centredowntownheart

core核心畫面

The loose outer edge of a town, where the city thins out. Ride a bus away from the centre and watch the buildings get lower and further apart, until there are fields between them. That belt — still the town, but only just — is the outskirts.

一座城市的「衣襬」。從市中心搭車往外坐，樓房越來越矮、越來越疏，招牌變少，中間開始出現空地和田——就在城市快要用完、但還沒完全變成鄉下的那一圈，就是 outskirts。它不是一條線，是一段模糊的地帶；你不會確切知道自己是哪一刻離開了城市。這個字永遠是複數形（on the outskirts of Taipei），因為那圈邊緣本來就是繞著城市一整圈，不是單一個點。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

複數 outskirts

意思相近

edgesuburbsfringesperipheryenvirons

意思相反

centrecity centredowntownheart

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

outskirtsnoun詞源 1/ˈaʊtskɝts/

  • 1

    The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.

    • He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.
    • The village borders on the Hakka district of Wanluan on the southeastern outskirts of Chaozhou, and its temple is modest in size, with a front and rear chamber and two larger temporary extensions front and side. Yet its members (unaware of similarly named temples in Pingdong as well as Donggang) insist that it is the City God of the county of Pingdong.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • outskirt

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