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rural

/roor-uhl/US // ˈrʊər əl //UK // (ˈrʊərəl) //

农村,乡村,农村地区,农村的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
    • : living in the country: the rural population.
    • : of or relating to agriculture: rural economy.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who lives in a rural area.

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Examples

  • The DFC confirmed a $5 million equity investment in Copia Global, a Kenya-based e-commerce and logistics startup that focuses on under-served consumers in rural areas.

  • The true total is likely higher, as the country’s testing capacities are limited, especially in rural areas.

  • Yadav moved from his rural home in the eastern state of Bihar a decade ago in search of a job that would allow him to send his two kids to school.

  • And, two rural customers – Fallbrook and Rainbow – are in the process of leaving the Water Authority because they’re fed up with its rising rates.

  • Eastern Washington is largely rural and conservative, but state politics are dominated by the urbanized coastal region.

  • These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.

  • For the first time in American history, rural America has been losing population.

  • She is also head of the Sabancı Foundation, which conducts female-empowerment programs for women in rural Turkey.

  • Rural churches were deserted, and the connection between the land and the bounty of harvests was gone.

  • “In almost all rural areas of Switzerland, it is customary to eat cats and dogs,” she says.

  • There are many more good dwellings on this plain than in the rural portion of Lower Italy.

  • The hospitals in the capital were crowded with wounded soldiers, brought in at great risk from the rural districts.

  • Here again we have the landscape of Lorraine and the eternal and infinitely varied theme of rural labour.

  • This rule however does not apply to travelers walking along a rural highway.

  • Then it is sung softly like the farmhand quartettes do in the rural melodrama outside the old homestead in harvest time.