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词组 suburb
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suburb /ˈsʌbɜːb $ -ɜːrb/ noun [C] an area away from the centre of a town or city, where a lot of people liveadjectivesa wealthy/rich/affluent/prosperous suburb (=one where the people have a lot of money) He lives in Lexington, an affluent suburb of Boston.an upmarket suburb BrE an upscale suburb AmE (=a wealthy suburb) They own a large house in the upscale eastern suburbs of San Francisco.the outer/outlying suburbs As you reach the outer suburbs, the houses get bigger.sprawling suburbs (=spreading over a long distance) The city’s sprawling suburbs seemed to go on forever.a leafy suburb (=pleasant, with a lot of trees) I took the train to Motspur Park, a leafy suburb of south-west London.an exclusive suburb (=very expensive, so few people can afford to live there) The estate is located in one of Philadelphia’s most exclusive suburbs, about 13 miles west of downtown.an eastern/western/northern/southern suburb We passed through the city’s western suburbs on the way to the airport.a middle-class suburb He grew up in a prosperous middle-class suburb of Leeds.the surrounding suburbs The city of Buffalo and its surrounding suburbs are still without electrical power.prepositionsa suburb of sth I was born in a suburb of Birmingham.in the suburbs Don’t you get bored living out here in the suburbs?THESAURUS: suburb area (1)
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