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vicinage

/vis-uh-nij/US // ˈvɪs ə nɪdʒ //UK // (ˈvɪsənɪdʒ) //

附近地区,周边地区,邻近地区,周边环境

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the region near or about a place; vicinity.
    • : a particular neighborhood or district, or the people belonging to it.
    • : proximity.

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Examples

  • After many days of wolfish travel he saw signs of the vicinage of the Shoshone Indians.

  • The conception of a pomoerium as a "vicinage attached to" a city, appears to be something quite novel and original.

  • I should have supposed it meant a narrower locality and would apply to a city or town—a vicinage.

  • That the whipper-snappers of the vicinage should indulge their propensities comes as the order of their nature.

  • Our law provided but a precarious and uncomfortable niche for them under the rubric common pur cause de vicinage.