small town
英 [ˈsmɔːl taʊn]
美 [ˈsmɔːl taʊn]
adj. (通常指美国的小镇)民风淳朴友好的;(人)偏狭守旧的
柯林斯词典
- ADJ (通常指美国的小镇)民风淳朴友好的;(人)偏狭守旧的
Small townis used when referring to small places, usually in the United States, where people are friendly, honest, and polite, or to the people there.Small townis also sometimes used to suggest that someone has old-fashioned ideas.- ...an idealized small-town America of neat, middle-class homes...
理想化的富有小镇风情的美国,到处是整洁的中产阶级住宅 - The little small-town banks were traditionally very frightened that Wall Street would come to dominate the whole country...
偏狭守旧的小银行通常都很害怕华尔街会控制整个国家。 - The guy in charge was the typical smalltown tyrant.
管事者专横霸道,典型的小地方人。
- ...an idealized small-town America of neat, middle-class homes...
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 smalltown
英英释义
noun
- a community of people smaller than a town
双语例句
- I'm from a small town near Beijing.
我是从北京附近的一个小城镇来的。 - I have a distant relative in this small town.
在这个小镇上我有一个远亲。 - She thought life in the small town was monotonous.
她觉得小镇上的生活单调乏味。 - A man and a woman live in a small town.
有一个男的和一个女的住在小城镇里。 - The small town became the centre of the whole country's attention.
这个小县城成了全国注目的地方。 - I was born in 1968 in a small town in Northwest China.
我出生于1968年,中国西北方的一个小城镇。 - When the boys graduated from high school, Ann moved to a small town in Vermont
当儿子们高中毕业后,安搬到佛蒙特州的一个小镇上居住。 - Varese Ligure is a small town in mountainous country east of Genoa.
瓦雷泽古雷是位于热那亚以东山区的一座小城。 - I was born in a small town, up in the mountains.
我出生在高山上的一个小镇。 - Quiet came over the small town at twi-light.
暮色苍茫,那个小镇笼罩在一片静谧之中。