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 come from a small town in brazil, so big city life is quite a change for me.
我来自巴西的一个小城镇,所以大城市的生活对我来说是一个不小的变化。 - But I'm from a small town.
我是从一个小镇来的。 - This happened in a small town of Cana in Galilee.
这在加利利的一个小城迦拿发生。 - 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。 - He has been warder in the small town's prison for 20 years.
他已经在这座小城的监狱里当了20年的狱吏了。 - I live with my parents in a small town.
我和父母住在一个小城镇; - I live in a Hainan Island's small town, there has the beautiful sea and many coconut trees.
我住在海南岛的一个小镇,那里有美丽的大海和很多椰子。 - I have a distant relative in this small town.
在这个小镇上我有一个远亲。 - I was born in a small town.
我出生在一个小镇。 - 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。