town

英 [taʊn] 美[taʊn]

n. 城镇，市镇；市内商业区
n. (Town)人名；(英)汤

近义词 municipality city metropolis

反义词 country

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英英释义

1. an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city;: "they drive through town on their way to work"

2. an administrative division of a county;: "the town is responsible for snow removal"

3. the people living in a municipality smaller than a city;: "the whole town cheered the team"

同义词辨析

city, town

这两个名词均含"城市"之意。

city：一般指大城市或重要城市。

town：一般指规模小的城镇，也指城市中的市区，有时也泛指城市。

词组搭配

go to town

(informal)do something thoroughly, enthusiastically, or extravagantly

(非正式)彻底地（或热忱地，铺张地）做某事

I thought I'd &B{go to town on} the redecoration.
我原想我会不遗余力地进行再装修。

考试真题

Thousands of bees left a town after landing on the back of a car when their queen got stuck in its boot.

A friend recently took her mother to visit an expensive assisted living / nursing home near my town.

The Tunisian government said Monday that 45 people have been killed after gunmen attacked a town near the border with Libya.

Within the US, towns have become startup hubs if and only if they have both rich people and nerds.

Last September the couple moved into a 1,500-square-foot home in Premier Gardens, a subdivision of 95 "zero-energy homes"(ZEH) just outside town.

Andrew's runs a food pantry(食品堂)that serves the city and several of the surrounding towns.

At Alfie's, the newest of the British restaurants in town and perhaps the most gentlemen's club-like in design, Neil Tomes explains his passion for provenance (原产地).

I need some information about some of the towns near here.

They are really pretty little towns with lots of old housesand beautiful tree-lined streets

I'd recommend visiting Westfield or Great Town.

Westfield is just seven miles west ofhere and Great Town is about five miles south

Seven miles west to Westfield and five relies south to Great Town.

What do we learn about Westfield and Great Town

Sun School in the town of Ashbert in England is a day school for children age 10 to

He is out of town all morning

His research in the neighboring town has taken longer than he expected.

So there used to be transport problems, now though there are new train links and better roads, but it may be that some smaller towns inland remain not very well connected, is that OK?

Angeleno who came to the US six years ago, and is now an established businessman with three restaurants in town.

And word got around town about the food

hi David, there is a new gym opening in town today.

I went to a secondary school in South Town.

I won't be in the area tomorrow, as I have some other deliveries to make on the other side of the town.

In Lagos, foreign oil workers can pay as much as $65,000 per year in rent for a modest apartment in a safe part of town.

On the other hand, imagine the cost savings for local police enforcement and town budgets without all those speeding and parking tickets.

The bear named Pedals was spotted in the town of Oak ridge.

The Tunisian government said Monday that 45 people have been killed after gunmen attacked a town near the border with Libya.

Students in university towns may also have access to another lever for involvement in accelerated math: math circles.

Biologist Jill Farrant of the University of Cape Town in South Africa says that nature has plenty of answers for people who want to grow crops in places with unpredictable rainfall.

It is a grim reality that you can have one person who only makes around 13,000 dollars a year, while across town another is making millions.

She was going to talk with slides about a town in the 18th century.

You go to a little town in Japan, where nobody speaks English, yet they know you on site and know all your music.

After ten years of living in one, I can't imagine ever living in a small town again.

And the town is fast becoming a popular weekend destination for people in Asia.

Berlin has been the easiest while the most difficult was the Czech town of Pilsen.

Boom towns grow from nothing almost overnight.

He sold or exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearby for other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what was left.

Hilversum became the media capital of the Netherlands, and Dutch television stars moved into the leafy neighborhoods surrounding the town.

His masterpiece, Hilversum town hall, was built in 1928-1931.

However, just before the annual giant vegetable competitions, an enormous rabbit begins terrorising the town.

However, these things are not common in small towns.

However, you seldom find such a variety of people in a smaller town.

I grew up in a small town until I was 18 and then moved to a big city, so I have experienced the good and bad sides of both.

I think almost all the people in the town were there.

If a neighbor is going to be out of town, offer to collect mail and newspapers.

In 2005, when the Bishop Arts Theatre was donated to our town, the location was considered a poor area of town.

In a small town, you have to own a car to make life comfortable.

In the town of Tiverton, a new ice-cream store, the Muddy Moos, is opened.

It was a popular activity for couples to leisurely walk through town to view the temporary works of chilly art.

It was about the history of the town.

Life in the town of Tiverton is made up of both good news and bad news.

Yes, but a few blocks down town would be much more expensive.

Most radio stations settled in the large villas in the leafy areas of the town.

Newly-built wooden cottages line the street, turning the old town into a dreamland.

Nome's town officials came up with an plan.

Of course, safety should be considered, and that's one area where small towns are better than big cities.

On the last Wednesday of every August, the Spanish town of Bunol hosts Ea Tomatina—the world's largest food fight.

On the third Monday of April, the holiday sechselauten is kicked off when a cotton snowman called the boogg is stuffed with explosive and paraded through town by bakers and other tradesmen who throw bread to the crowds.

Sorry, doctor white is out of town and I'm not in the position to give out that kind of information.

Surely small towns and big cities both have some problems in terms of transport.

The ad had a phone number for a town in southern Michigan.

The children of nome would be helpless if it struck the town.

The movie is set in a small town where the only movie theater is preparing to close down.

The town elders wanted to learn about the world.

The town was cut off from the rest of the world due to heavy snow.

The two didn't know each other well—Taylor had just moved to town a month or so before.

Then you can take the shuttle bus into town.

There is really no space for any more new buildings in the town.

They built themselves large villas in the wooded surroundings of the town.

When harvest came around, he was already selling herbs, vegetables and cotton in the market which people from the towns met regularly.

When I was a little girl, my family moved to a tiny town at the bottom of a big mountain.

With great interest, he read everything he could lay his hands on, listened to the town elders and learned about the world beyond his tiny hometown.

The sensible place to build new houses，factories and offices is where people are，in cities and towns where infrastructure is in place.

Rural towns and villages have grown and will always grow.

Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.

For the first time in history more people live in towns than in the country.

A "town of culture" could be not just about the arts but about honoring a town's peculiarities-helping sustain its high street, supporting local facilities and above all celebrating its people and turn it into action.

A cynic might speculate that the UK is on the verge of disappearing into an endless fever of self-celebration in its desperation to reinvent itself for the post-Brexit world: after town of culture, who knows that will follow-village of culture?

A group of labour MPs, among them Yvette Cooper, are bringing in the new year with a call to institute a UK "town of culture" award.

A town of culture award could, it is argued, become an annual event, attracting funding and creating jobs.

Britain town, it is true are not prevented from applying, but they generally lack the resources to put together a bit to beat their bigger competitions.

But mayors and councilors can only do so much about a problem that is far bigger than any one city or town.

实用场景例句

a university town: 大学城

They live in a rough part of town.: 他们居住在一个社会秩序混乱的城区。

The nearest town is ten miles away.: 最近的集镇离这里有十英里远。

We spent a month in the French town of Le Puy.: 我们在一个叫勒皮的法国小镇里待了一个月。

The whole town is talking about it.: 全镇的人都在议论这件事。

Can you give me a lift into town?: 我可以搭你的车到商业区去吗？

I'll be in town next week if you want to meet.: 如果你想见面的话，我下个星期在城里。

He married a girl from out of town.: 他娶了一个外地姑娘。

Pollution is just one of the disadvantages of living in the town.: 污染只是生活在城里的不利条件之一。

a night on the town: 去娱乐场所作乐的夜晚

How about going out on the town tonight?: 今晚出去痛痛快快地玩一玩怎么样？

...Saturday night in the small town of Braintree, Essex...: 埃塞克斯郡布伦特里小镇的周六之夜

Parking can be tricky in the town centre.: 在市镇中心停车可能会挺费事。

He admits he doesn't even know when his brother is in town...: 他承认自己甚至不知道弟弟什么时候来了本市。

She left town.: 她离开了自己生活的城镇。

I walked around town...: 我在市中心逛了逛。

I caught a bus into town.: 我赶上辆公交车去了市中心。

More people are going to want to escape from the town into the country…: 更多的人将会想要逃离城市到乡村去。

It had the advantages of town and country combined.: 它兼具都市与乡村的优势。

We really went to town on it, turning it into a full, three-day show...: 我们下了真功夫，把它办成了一场内容丰富、为时三天的展览。

The papers got hold of it and went to town on it…: 报纸抓住这件事大做文章。

He was known as a tall, handsome man about town…: 他以高大英俊的花花公子形象为人所知。

He is an old flame of Sarah's, from her days as a single girl about town.: 他是萨拉的旧情人，是她作为单身时髦女郎时的旧爱。

My idea of luxury used to be going out on the town and coming back in the early hours of the morning...: 我过去对奢侈的概念是夜晚在闹市通宵玩乐到清晨才回来。

Last Saturday, I was out on the town with my mate…: 上个星期六我和老友晚上去闹市玩乐了。

中文词源

town 城镇

来自古英语 tun,村庄，围场，居住区，来自 Proto-Germanic*tuna,栏杆，围栏，来自 PIE*dheue, 围，围住，词源同 down,tune.后用于指城镇，在过去与 city 常混用。

双语例句

1. They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.: 他们偶然来到一个居住着一位狡诈的淘金者的废墟之城。

2. The new town would have been unrecognisable to the original inhabitants.: 原来的居民可能会认不出这个崭新的城镇了。

3. As he talked, an airforce jet screamed over the town.: 他谈话时，一架军用喷气式飞机在镇子上空呼啸而过。

4. Distantly, to her right, she could make out the town of Chiffa.: 在她右边，远远的，她依稀能辨认出希法镇。

5. I never go on the bus into the town.: 我从不坐公共汽车去城里。

英文词源

town: town: [OE] The ancestral meaning of town is ‘enclosed place’ – amongst its relatives are German zaun ‘hedge, fence’ and Old Irish dūn ‘fort, camp, fortified place’. Its Old English forerunner tūn was used for an ‘enclosure’ or ‘yard’, and also for a ‘building or set of buildings within an enclosure’, hence a ‘farm’. This in due course evolved to a ‘cluster of dwellings’, and by the 12th century the modern English sense of the word was in place (the standard Old English term for ‘town’ was burg, ancestor of modern English borough).

The -ton ending of English place-names goes back in many cases to a time when the word meant ‘farmstead’.
town (n.): Old English tun "enclosure, garden, field, yard; farm, manor; homestead, dwelling house, mansion;" later "group of houses, village, farm," from Proto-Germanic *tunaz, *tunan "fortified place" (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Norse, Old Frisian tun "fence, hedge," Middle Dutch tuun "fence," Dutch tuin "garden," Old High German zun, German Zaun "fence, hedge"), an early borrowing from Celtic *dunon "hill, hill-fort" (cognates: Old Irish dun, Welsh din "fortress, fortified place, camp," dinas "city," Gaulish-Latin -dunum in place names), from PIE *dhu-no- "enclosed, fortified place, hill-fort," from root *dheue- "to close, finish, come full circle" (see down (n.2)).

Meaning "inhabited place larger than a village" (mid-12c.) arose after the Norman conquest from the use of this word to correspond to French ville. The modern word is partially a generic term, applicable to cities of great size as well as places intermediate between a city and a village; such use is unusual, the only parallel is perhaps Latin oppidium, which occasionally was applied even to Rome or Athens (each of which was more properly an urbs).

First record of town hall is from late 15c. Town ball, version of baseball, is recorded from 1852. Town car (1907) originally was a motor car with an enclosed passenger compartment and open driver's seat. On the town "living the high life" is from 1712. Go to town "do (something) energetically" is first recorded 1933. Man about town "one constantly seen at public and private functions" is attested from 1734.

词态变化

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