喜樂美語
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    /ˈaʊtskɜːrts/ · /ˈaʊtskɜːts/

    The parts of a town or city that are from the centre, where the streets and buildings start to run out and open land begins.

    市郊；外圍

    複數 outskirts

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

The loose outer edge of a town, where the city thins out. Ride a bus away from the centre and watch the buildings get lower and further apart, until there are fields between them. That belt — still the town, but only just — is the outskirts.

一座城市的「衣襬」。從市中心搭車往外坐，樓房越來越矮、越來越疏，招牌變少，中間開始出現空地和田——就在城市快要用完、…更多收起一座城市的「衣襬」。從市中心搭車往外坐，樓房越來越矮、越來越疏，招牌變少，中間開始出現空地和田——就在城市快要用完、但還沒完全變成鄉下的那一圈，就是 outskirts。它不是一條線，是一段模糊的地帶；你不會確切知道自己是哪一刻離開了城市。這個字永遠是複數形（on the outskirts of Taipei），因為那圈邊緣本來就是繞著城市一整圈，不是單一個點。

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。

outskirtsnoun詞源 1/ˈaʊtskɝts/

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    The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.

    • He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.
    • The village borders on the Hakka district of Wanluan on the southeastern outskirts of Chaozhou, and its temple is modest in size, with a front and rear chamber and two larger temporary extensions front and side. Yet its members (unaware of similarly named temples in Pingdong as well as Donggang) insist that it is the City God of the county of Pingdong.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。