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IELTS BNC: 433 COCA: 488

town

Word family 
Related topics: Geography
town /taʊn/ ●●● S1 W1 noun
1  place 地方 [countableC]SGTOWN a large area with houses, shops, offices etc where people live and work, that is smaller than a city and larger than a village 鎮，城鎮，市鎮
an industrial town in the Midlands
英格蘭中部的一座工業城鎮
town of
the town of Norwalk, Connecticut
康涅狄格州諾沃克鎮
I walked to the nearest town.
我走到最近的鎮上。
► see thesaurus at city
2  main centre 主要中心 [uncountableU]SGTOWN the business or shopping centre of a town 〔市鎮的〕商業中心區，鬧市區
We’re going into town tonight to see a film.
我們今晚要去市中心看電影。
They have a small apartment in town.
他們在市中心有一套小公寓。
3  people 人們 [singular]GROUP OF PEOPLE all the people who live in a particular town 全體鎮民，全鎮人
The whole town turned out to watch the procession.
全鎮的人都出來觀看遊行隊伍。
4  where you live 居住地 [uncountableU]TOWN the town or city where you live 〔自己居住的〕城鎮，城市
Cam left town about an hour ago, so he should be out at the farm by now.
卡姆是大約一小時前離開城裏的，他現在應該到農場了。
I’ll be out of town for about a week.
我要出城一星期左右。
Guess who’s in town? Jodie’s sister!
猜猜誰到城裏來了？喬迪的妹妹！
Do you know of a good place to eat? I’m from out of town (=from a different town).
你能介紹個吃飯的好地方嗎？我是外地人。
We’re moving to another part of town.
我們要搬到城裏的另一個地方去。
5  village 村莊 [countableC] American EnglishAmESGTOWN several houses forming a small group around a church, shops etc 〔圍繞某個教堂、商店等形成的〕小鄉鎮，集鎮 SYN British English village
Rowayton is a small town of around 4,000 people.
羅威頓是一個4,000人左右的小鎮。
6  NOT COUNTRY 不是鄉下the town SGTOWNlife in towns and cities in general 城鎮生活，城市生活〔統稱〕
Which do you prefer, the town or the country?
城市生活和鄉村生活，你更喜歡哪一種？
7  go to town (on something) informalENTHUSIASTIC to do something in a very eager or thorough way 拼命地幹（某事）
Angela really went to town on buying things for her new house.
安傑拉瘋狂地給她的新居購置物品。
Examples from the Corpus
go to town (on something)• Bury that snout in Haagen-Dasz and go to town!• This month he goes to town on forms.• Sandy went to town on the displays.• Bénéteau went to town in their usual impressive way; it is, after all, their home patch.• Windows give you a chance to go to town.• In the United States of the early 1940s, women still donned hats and gloves to go to town.• Over another cup of coffee we made plans to go to town.• When we used to go to town he used to get her out and carry her.
8  (out) on the town informalSOCIALIZE going to restaurants, bars, theatres etc for entertainment in the evening 〔晚間去娛樂場所〕尋歡作樂
Frank is taking me out for a night on the town.
弗蘭克要帶我出去玩一個晚上。
Examples from the Corpus
(out) on the town• A night on the town for the boys.• But don't let that fool you - by nightfall people are waking up ready to go out on the town.• The others have gone out on the town.• Joy was a Saturday morning out on the town.• The next time I saw him, I was out on the town with Peter Mbalu-Mukasa.• Had trouble dragging yourself out on the town on Sunday night?• Nowadays, the battlefield is an opera stage, at Sebastiani Theatre on the town square.
9. town and gown SEPARATEused to describe the situation in which the people living in a town and the students in a town seem to be separate and opposing groups 〔分成兩派、相互對立的〕市民和學生
Examples from the Corpus
town and gown• He says Morse is town and gown.• Back to the town and gown.
→ ghost town, home town, → paint the town (red) at paint2(5)
 COLLOCATIONS
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + town
small/big 小的/大的
I grew up in a small town in Iowa.
我是在艾奧瓦州的一個小鎮上長大的。
nThe nearest big town is 20 miles away.
a little town 小鎮
a pretty little town in the French Alps
法國阿爾卑斯山區一個美麗的小鎮
a major town 大型城鎮
It is one of the UK’s biggest retailers with shops in every major town.
這是英國最大的零售商之一，其商店遍布每一個大型城鎮。
busy/bustling 繁忙的
The town was busy even in November.
甚至在11月，該鎮也很繁忙。
quiet 寂靜的
The town is quiet in the summer.
夏天，該鎮靜悄悄的。
nCannigione is a quiet little town with a scattering of shops, restaurants and cafés.
sleepy (=very quiet, with not much happening) 寂靜的
nJohnson grew up in the sleepy retirement town of Asheville.
a historic/ancient town 歷史小鎮/古鎮
nVisitors can go on a tour of this historic town.
an industrial town 工業小鎮
nThousands moved to the newly forming industrial towns to work in the mills.
a seaside town 濱海小鎮
nyoung people looking for seasonal work in seaside towns
a provincial town (=one that is not near the capital) 外地小鎮
nMany provincial towns were transformed by the coming of the railway.
a market town (=a town in Britain where there is a regular outdoor market) 集鎮
nThe pretty market town of Ashbourne is only 9 miles away.
somebody’s home town (=the town where someone was born) 某人的家鄉小鎮
nHe was buried in his home town of Leeds.
na new town (=one of several towns built in Britain since 1946)
The design of Milton Keynes and other new towns proved unpopular.
phrases
the centre of town/the town centre British EnglishBrE, the center of town/the town center American EnglishAmE 康涅狄格州諾沃克鎮
The hotel was right in the center of town.
酒店就在鎮中心。
the outskirts/edge of a town 郊區
nIt was six o'clock when she reached the outskirts of the town.
Examples from the Corpus
town• a town of about 35,000 people• Villages as well as towns expanded rapidly during the first half of the nineteenth century.• deep divisions in wealth between town and country• The Delta towns, and even Rangoon, came under threat.• More and more people were seeking work in the growing towns.• Although the population is increasing-estimated to be 32 million-over half live in towns or cities.• Steyne Street was a narrow street in a shabby but respectable part of town.• Our responsibility stops at our town line, another board member blurted out.• La Coruna is a pretty seaside town on the north-western tip of Spain.• He grew up in a small town.• a small town in the Midwest• We were too busy admiring the town to let their griping bother us.• A large sign announced that we were entering the town of Knock.• You can discover the great square keep, and enjoy the panoramic view from the top over the town below.• In the surprise attack, they torched the town and rounded up its inhabitants.• The town is situated some 23 miles north of London.• Just about the whole town showed up at the funeral.
going into town• Ben had said nothing about going into town.• I can remember me and my mum going into town to buy these shoes for school.• The passenger wagons were not going into town for another half hour, so I hired a carriage and went in myself.• So I pre-empted them and suggested going into town.• The next morning, Bea woke me and told me to get dressed because we were going into town for church services.
left town• When Jefferson defeated Adams for the presidency, Adams left town before the inauguration rather than shake hands with him.• Albert had left town, his secretary said.• Maybe S.. Blackman had left town or died mysteriously.• But it was Sunday, and most of the members of the government had left town.• Cases five and six had not left town and the urban area was, therefore, the only plausible site of infection.• As far as she was concerned, Christine had simply left town and never been heard from again.• Schools have been closed for the week, and large numbers of residents have simply left town.• It doesn't take long once you've left town before you're walking along the cliff-path with spectacular views.
Origin town
Old English tun “yard, buildings inside a wall, village, town”
IELTS BNC: 433 COCA: 488
town

noun¹

 1place with many streets and buildings城鎮ADJECTIVE | VERB + TOWN | TOWN + VERB | TOWN + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤big, large, major大城鎮▸➤little, small, tiny (especially NAmE) 小城鎮▸➤nearby, neighbouring/neighboring, surrounding附近的城鎮▸➤ancient, historic, medieval, old古鎮；中世紀的城鎮；古老的城鎮▸➤new新城鎮◇It was built as a new town in the 1960s. (BrE) 這是在 20 世紀 60 年代建立的新城鎮。➤company, factory, farm, industrial, mill, mining公司／工廠／農場／工業／採礦小鎮◇a 19th-century mill town that used to produce cotton19 世紀生產棉製品的工業小鎮➤busy繁忙的城鎮◇a busy market town繁忙的集鎮➤boom, thriving繁榮的城鎮◇Rio was a boom town and trade was thriving.裏約熱內盧是一個繁榮的城市，貿易蓬勃發展。◇a thriving mining town繁榮的採礦小鎮➤dusty, sleepy塵土飛揚的／死氣沉沉的小鎮◇the dusty border town of Eagle Pass, Texas伊格爾帕斯，得克薩斯州一個塵土飛揚的邊境小鎮◇a sleepy provincial town in southern France法國南部一個冷清的小鎮➤remote偏僻的小鎮▸➤country, provincial, rural鄉間小鎮；首都以外的城鎮▸➤county (BrE) 郡首府◇Exeter, the county town of Devon埃克賽特，德文郡首府➤home, native家鄉小鎮◇She has gone back to live in her home town.她已經回到她的故鄉去生活了。➤border, frontier邊境城鎮➤mountain, prairie (especially NAmE) 山區／草原小鎮▸➤beach, coastal, seaside (especially BrE) 海灘／沿海／海濱城鎮◇the sun-drenched beach towns of Southern California沐浴着陽光的南加州海灘小鎮➤holiday, resort度假城；度假勝地▸➤cathedral, college, market, university (especially BrE) 教區總教堂所在地；學院城；貿易集鎮；大學城▸➤dormitory, satellite郊外住宅區；衞星城▸➤fortified設防的城鎮◇Kitzbühel is an ancient fortified town.基茨比厄爾是一個築有要塞的古鎮。➤shanty貧民窟▸➤ghost鬼城；被廢棄的城鎮◇It's been a ghost town since the gold rush ended.淘金熱結束後，這個城市就被廢棄了。➤twin (BrE) 姊妹城◇Darlington's twin town of Amiens達靈頓的姊妹城，亞眠城VERB + TOWN➤build, found建立城鎮▸➤live in生活在城鎮◇How many people live in the town?有多少人生活在城裏？➤get out of, leave, move out of, skip (informal, especially NAmE) 離開城鎮；搬離城鎮◇He left town yesterday for a conference in Cape Town.他昨天離城去開普敦出席一個會議。◇They wanted to move out of town and start a new life in the country.他們想搬離城市去鄉村開始新的生活。➤surround環繞鎮子◇the rolling hills that surround the town環繞着鎮子的連綿起伏的丘陵TOWN + VERB➤flourish, grow城鎮繁榮／發展TOWN + NOUN➤centre (BrE) 城市中心▸➤hall, square, walls市政廳；市政廣場；城牆▸➤council（尤指英國的）鎮委員會➤meeting市民大會▸➤life城鎮生活▸➤planning城鎮規劃PREPOSITION➤in town在城裏◇They'll be back in town tomorrow.他們將於明天返城。➤out of town不在城裏◇I was out of town last week.上星期我去外地了。◇an out-of-town superstore市區外的大型商場➤outside (the) town在城外◇a lake just outside the town城外的湖PHRASES➤the centre/center of (the) town, the middle of (the) town市鎮中心➤the edge of (the) town, the outskirts of (the) town市鎮邊緣／郊區▸➤from town to town從一個城鎮到另一個城鎮◇I spent years moving from town to town.多年來，我從一個鎮子搬到另一個鎮子。
town

noun²

 2main part of a town, with the shops/stores, etc.商鋪林立的主城區VERB + TOWN | PREPOSITION VERB + TOWN➤go into, hit (informal) 到市中心去◇I'm going into town－can I get you anything?我要到市中心去 － 你要帶點兒什麼嗎？◇Millie hit the town, looking for excitement.米莉來到鎮上尋求刺激。PREPOSITION➤in town在市中心◇Dad's in town shopping.爸爸在市中心購物。
IELTS BNC: 433 COCA: 488
town noun
⇨ city
IELTS BNC: 433 COCA: 488

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