town
n. 城鎮,市鎮; 小村莊; 城鎮居民; 商業中心
A town is a place with many streets and buildings, where people live and work. Towns are larger than villages and smaller than cities. Many places that are called towns in Britain would be called cities in the United States.
...Saturday night in the small town of Braintree, Essex...
埃塞克斯郡布倫特裡小鎮的週六之夜
Parking can be tricky in the town centre.
在市鎮中心停車可能會挺費事。
You use town in order to refer to the town where you live.
He admits he doesn't even know when his brother is in town...
他承認自己甚至不知道弟弟什麼時候來了本市。
She left town.
她離開了自己生活的城鎮。
You use town in order to refer to the central area of a town where most of the shops and offices are.
I walked around town...
我在市中心逛了逛。
I caught a bus into town.
我趕上輛公交車去了市中心。
If you refer to the town, you are referring to town and city areas in general, as opposed to country areas.
More people are going to want to escape from the town into the country…
更多的人將會想要逃離城市到鄉村去。
It had the advantages of town and country combined.
它兼具都市與鄉村的優勢。
If you say that someone goes to town on something, you mean that they deal with it with a lot of enthusiasm or intensity.
We really went to town on it, turning it into a full, three-day show...
我們下了真功夫,把它辦成了一場內容豐富、為時三天的展覽。
The papers got hold of it and went to town on it…
報紙抓住這件事大做文章。
If you describe someone as a man about town or a woman about town, you mean that they are sophisticated, like to go out and spend money, and have a busy social life.
He was known as a tall, handsome man about town…
他以高大英俊的花花公子形象為人所知。
He is an old flame of Sarah's, from her days as a single girl about town.
他是薩拉的舊情人,是她作為單身時髦女郎時的舊愛。
If you go out on the town or go for a night on the town, you enjoy yourself by going to a town centre in the evening and spending a long time there visiting several places of entertainment.
My idea of luxury used to be going out on the town and coming back in the early hours of the morning...
我過去對奢侈的概念是夜晚在鬧市通宵玩樂到清晨才回來。
Last Saturday, I was out on the town with my mate…
上個星期六我和老友晚上去鬧市玩樂了。
1. an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city;
2. an administrative division of a county;
3. the people living in a municipality smaller than a city;
go to town
(非正式)徹底地(或熱忱地,鋪張地)做某事
on the town
(非正式)作樂(尤指享受城鎮的夜生活)
on the town【非正式用語】
積極地尋求鎮或城市的娛樂活動
I will run you in if the bus isn't going into the town because of the snow today.
如果今天公共汽車因為下雪不送你進城的話,我會開車送你去的.
The street runs through the town.
街道橫穿這個鎮.
A tornado whirled into the town last week.
龍捲風上週襲擊了這座城市.
The little town mushroomed into a city.
那座小鎮迅速發展成一座城市.
The whole town turned out to see the circus.
傾城而出看馬戲表演.