- 1nA2
/ˈkʌntrisaɪd/
Land outside towns and cities, with fields, hills, trees, or forests — often talked about for its beauty or quiet.
鄉村／鄉下
核心畫面
Picture the view from a train once the buildings stop: fields, hedges, hills, a few trees. The word is that open land seen as scenery — which is why it so often turns up with words about beauty and quiet rather than with facts about farming.
可以想成：火車開出市區之後窗外的那片景色——田、樹籬、山丘、幾棵樹。這個字看的是「風景意義上的鄉間」，所以它旁邊常常…更多收起
可以想成：火車開出市區之後窗外的那片景色——田、樹籬、山丘、幾棵樹。這個字看的是「風景意義上的鄉間」，所以它旁邊常常出現 beautiful、peaceful 這類形容詞，而不是產業或人口的資料。用法上是不可數，而且幾乎都加 the：drive through the countryside、live in the countryside。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
countrysidenoun/ˈkʌn.tɹiˌsaɪd/
- 1
An area located outside of towns and cities; an area that is not urban or suburban; a rural area.
- From November 28 to December 8, 1958, the CCP Central Committee held its sixth plenum in Wuhan, Hopei^([sic – meaning Hupei]), and at the end of the session it issued a revealing resolution that declared there had been some misconception about the system and that party committees throughout the countryside should make full use of the five months from December 1958 to April 1959 to tidy up the communes.
- When rewilding plans were first revealed, critics of Scotland’s concentrated land ownership – half of the Scottish countryside is owned by around 450 people – expressed fears that Glenfeshie might become a reservation for the rich, but these have been partially allayed by letting ordinary hikers walk across the glens for free.
- 2
Such part of a larger area.
- We live in the Swedish countryside.
- 3
A rural landscape.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。