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/ˈsʌbɝːb/ · /ˈsʌbɜːb/
An area outside the centre of a town or city where people live, often with houses and quieter streets.
郊區
複數 suburbs
核心畫面
Picture the ring around a city centre: the shops and offices thin out, the buildings get lower, there are gardens and schools and parked cars, and the people living there mostly travel into the centre to work. Still part of the city, just not the middle of it.
可以想成：城市中心外面那一圈。商店和辦公大樓變少了，房子變矮了，多了院子、學校和停在路邊的車，住在這裡的人多半每天往…更多收起
可以想成：城市中心外面那一圈。商店和辦公大樓變少了，房子變矮了，多了院子、學校和停在路邊的車，住在這裡的人多半每天往市中心通勤上班。它還屬於這座城市，只是不在正中間。台灣人習慣說的「郊區」大致就是這個位置，只是英美的 suburb 更偏向住宅區的感覺，不是鄉下。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。
suburbnoun/ˈsʌbɝb/
- 1
A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.
- And the Lord spake vnto Moses in the plaines of Moab by Iordane, neere Iericho, saying, Command the children of Israel, that they giue vnto the Leuites of the inheritance of their possession, cities to dwell in: and yee shall giue also vnto the Leuites suburbs for the cities round about them.
- These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city.
- 2
The outer part; the environment.
- the suburbs […] of sorrow
- the suburb of their straw-built citadel
- 3
Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.
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。