boom town
繁荣镇,蓬勃发展的城市,繁荣小镇,繁荣的城市
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- : a town that has grown very rapidly as a result of sudden prosperity.
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At the time, San Diego was a boom town of perhaps 30,000 people – half the current population of La Mesa.
Indeed, although he works here in the old town, he lives in the new part of the city where he walks his dog in the morning.
Their bodies were later found incinerated and buried in mass graves outside of town.
The sheriff charged them with truancy, and then he and his officers ran them out of town.
Some of the streets in this part of the town have seen large scale-destruction.
The town, known in Arabic as Ayn al-Arab, is so significant to ISIS that the group calls it Ayn al-Islam.
The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.
The garrison of the town and fortress was nearly three thousand strong.
"I don't know whether I am going to like this or not--this coming to live in town," thought the little pig.
Of course it is only the hardiest Ferns which can be expected to grow well in the town garden.
The sun was shining when they arrived at Salon, the gayest, the most coquettish, the most laughing little town in Provence.