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vicinity

/vi-sin-i-tee/US // vɪˈsɪn ɪ ti //UK // (vɪˈsɪnɪtɪ) //

附近地区,周边地区,邻近地区,附近的人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural vi·cin·i·ties.

    • : the area or region near or about a place; surrounding district; neighborhood: There are no stores in the vicinity of our house.
    • : state or fact of being near; proximity; propinquity: He was troubled by the vicinity of the nuclear testing area.

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Examples

  • When patients on the floor tested positive, they and all patients in their vicinity needed to be moved to the red zone.

  • HPWhenever experts compile lists of the best 2-in-1 laptops, Hewlett-Packard consistently comes out on top or in the vicinity of it.

  • Supernovas in the immediate vicinity of the Milky Way — like Supernova 1987A — only occur on average about once every half-century.

  • The team almost never attempted a shot that wasn’t either a 3-pointer or in the immediate vicinity of the basket.

  • King Avenue and South Capitol Street intersect in the vicinity of the shootings.

  • The individual was spotted at a central London Park in the vicinity of Prince George, who was removed from the Park immediately.

  • That shooting brought the total to at least four in the vicinity of the Obama house since 2011.

  • The knife was recovered in the immediate vicinity of the attack.

  • Men and youths wearing surgical masks or balaclavas guarded the building and patrolled its immediate vicinity.

  • A second “ping” then put the phone in the vicinity of a shopping center in Kissimmee.

  • It is in the same vicinity and bears much the same character as those already mentioned.

  • We did not perceive the little town until we had surmounted the last eminence and were in its immediate vicinity.

  • But thats better than I can get for the same sort of a cottage in this very vicinity, exclaimed Mrs. Prentice.

  • There is little to detain one within the city of Leeds itself, but there are many places of interest in its immediate vicinity.

  • The sexton was soon found and he was delighted to point out the interesting objects in the church and vicinity.