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。 - 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。 - Whenthe new road was built, the small town was transformed into a large city.
新的公路建成之后,这个小镇就变成了一个大城市了。 - She thought life in the small town was monotonous.
她觉得小镇上的生活单调乏味。 - 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。 - This has provided a rationale to more thorough go into village and small town system plan.
这为更深进的研究村镇体系规划提供了理论基础。 - I am from a small town.
我来自一个小镇。 - But if you have lived in a small town, you can make the best of both world.
如果你是一个小市镇里住过,你就可两全其美了。 - 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。