borough

Related topics: Geography

bo·rough /ˈbʌrə $ -roʊ/ noun [countableC] → burgh

SGTOWNa town, or part of a large city, that is responsible for managing its own schools, hospitals, roads etc 自治市[镇]；城市的行政区

the borough of Queens in New York City

纽约市昆斯区

Lambeth Borough Council

兰贝斯自治市议会

Examples from the Corpus

borough• Croydon is indeed a borough fortunate in its parliamentary representation.• The dreams of nineteenth-century poets polluted the psychic atmosphere of the great boroughs and suburbs of New York.• Bimpson recognised a business opportunity when he discovered that the government had secured domain names for all the schools in his borough.• A spokesman for the borough engineer's department said the matter would be looked into.• Furthermore, a temporary local heroin drought was created in the borough.• I walk the boundaries of the borough every day and I have dowsed these lines many times.• the borough of Brooklyn in New York City• Many of those boroughs also have the worst housing, longest waiting lists and highest poverty levels of the country.

Origin borough

Old English burg “castle, town defended by a wall”

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Corpus

BNC: 3150 COCA: 11872

borough

noun

ADJECTIVE | BOROUGH + NOUN | PREPOSITION

ADJECTIVE

➤county, metropolitan (both in the UK) 郡級自治市；大都市的行政區

➤outer外行政區

BOROUGH + NOUN

➤council, councillor (in the UK) , president (in the US) 自治市政務會；政務委員；（紐約市的）行政區區長

➤resident自治市居民

➤park, school自治市公園／學校

PREPOSITION

➤in a/the borough, throughout a/the borough, within a/the borough在自治市裏；遍佈自治市；在自治市以內

◇There are factories scattered throughout the borough.工廠遍佈自治市各地。

➤borough of⋯的行政區

◇the New York borough of Queens紐約昆斯區

◇the London borough of Lewisham倫敦劉易舍姆區

BNC: 3150 COCA: 11872

borough noun
⇨ city

BNC: 3150 COCA: 11872

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