词组短语
in the suburbs在郊区；在郊外
outer suburbs远郊
同近义词辨析
suburbs, outskirts
这组词都有“郊区、近郊”的意思，其区别是：
outskirts在现代英语中只用这个复数形式，通常指市区以外的地方。
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
- Most office workers commute from the suburbs.
很多公司的职员都是从郊外来上班的。 - Do you know where I can take a bus to the suburbs?
您知道我在哪里可以坐公车到郊外去吗？
权威例句
CITIES WITHOUT SUBURBSSegregation in Cities and Suburbs: Old Trends and New.Brown kids in white suburbs: Housing mobility and the many faces of social capitalMinority Proximity to Whites in Suburbs: An Individual-Level Analysis of SegregationImmigrant Groups in the Suburbs: A Reexamination of Suburbanization and Spatial Assimilation“Chocolate city, vanilla suburbs:” Will the trend toward racially separate communities continue? ☆Integrated research and evaluation on non-point source pollution in Shanghai suburbsComparison of heat fluxes from summertime observations in the suburbs of four north American cities.Top Carnivores in the Suburbs? Ecological and Conservation Issues Raised by Colonization of North-eastern North America by CoyotesTh...Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White; The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
