1. 1aB2/səˈraʊndɪŋ/周圍的/附近的

    Being near to or all around a particular place.

    a particular place某個地方 Being near to or all around附近或四周

    示範例句 · Example

    We climbed to the top and looked at the surrounding hills.

    逐字我們爬到頂端,看著四周的山。

    surrounding 形容「在某個地方四周、圍在它旁邊」的東西,像 the surrounding area(周邊地區)、the surrounding hills(四周的山)。它只放在名詞前面(surrounding + 名詞)。可以想成從 surround(包圍)長出來的形容詞——把中間那塊地方圍起來的那一圈。

    常見搭配

    • the surrounding area

      周邊地區

      the area around a place

      Police searched the town and the surrounding area.

    • the surrounding countryside

      周圍的鄉間

      the fields and land around a place

      Both the town and the surrounding countryside are worth exploring.

    • the surrounding hills

      四周的山

      the hills around a place

      The bedrooms have lovely views of the surrounding hills.

    • surrounding villages

      周圍的村莊

      the villages around a place

      The market draws farmers from the surrounding villages.

core核心畫面

One way to see it: the ring of land or space that sits around a place. Put your finger on a town on the map and everything in the circle you draw round it — villages, fields, hills — is the surrounding area.

可以想成一個地方外圍那一圈:手指按在地圖上的某個城鎮,你繞著它畫一圈,圈裡的村子、田地、山丘就是 the surrounding area。它形容的是「圍在旁邊的那一片」,不是那個地方本身。

原始詞典資料4 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。

surroundingadj/səˈɹaʊndɪŋ/

    surroundingnoun/səˈɹaʊndɪŋ/

    • 1

      An outlying area; area in proximity to something.

    • 2

      An environment.

      • It was inevitable that German music should leave its impress upon the song of the Jew, that the Jew's spirit should be imbued with the musical scale and style of his surrounding.
      • They require a surrounding which keeps them from sinking into apathy through tasks which they are able to solve and duties they can carry out.

    這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

    摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。