inner city

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ˌinner ˈcity noun (plural inner cities) [countableC]

SSTOWNthe part near the middle of a city, especially where the buildings are in a bad condition and the people are poor 〔市中心周围的〕旧城区；(尤指)贫民区

the problems of our inner cities

我们贫民区的问题

—inner-city adjectiveadj

inner-city schools

贫民区的学校

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inner city• Browntown L.A. hosts 50 inner city kids at every Sunday home game.• Holidays for inner city groups are also to be provided.• The respectable residents have long since fled to the suburbs to escape the inner city pathologies.• The shy, scholarly Republican has roots both on the farm and in the inner city.• Twice he worked for the Wellington City Mission, among the lost and lonely people of the inner city.• The inner city question For one reason or another the inner city has always been a target for public regulation and control.

From Longman Business Dictionary

inner cityˌinner ˈcity noun (plural inner cities) [countableC]

the part near the centre of a city where the buildings are often in a bad condition and the people are poor

The inner cities are covered with dilapidated and dangerous housing.

poor, inner-city neighborhoods

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