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outskirts

US // (ˈaʊtˌskɜːts) //

郊区,郊外,近郊,乡郊

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : outlying or bordering areas, districts, etc, as of a city

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Examples

  • The next day, after driving to Putney on the outskirts of London, we start the end of our journey.

  • Artillery and mortar duels all around the outskirts of Donetsk rumble angrily every day.

  • By pure chance I had been posted to Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe, SHAPE, on the outskirts of Paris.

  • He blames Ukrainian officials for violating the ceasefire agreement and shelling the outskirts of Donetsk city.

  • We are sitting in a ragged park behind a McDonalds restaurant on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital.

  • In the outskirts of the city, skirmishes between Spanish troops and rebels were of frequent occurrence.

  • It was one of these rebel detachments that passed the four fugitives from Cawnpore on the outskirts of Bunnee.

  • The thatched roof farmhouse where he was born is still standing on the outskirts of the village.

  • It was near the town, and Sarah, who rarely went beyond the neighbouring streets, now began to take long walks into the outskirts.

  • And that motor parts plant on the outskirts with its heavy back-log of defense orders that had compelled a doubling of its help.