suburb• Amy teaches at a primary school in a suburb of Atlanta.• I was born and brought up in a suburb of New York City.• The falls are at Neuhausen, an extension of Schaffhausen to the south, rather than a suburb of it.• Last year his family bought a villa in a smartAthenssuburb.• His parents lived in the Balmoral suburb of south Belfast.• The city and its suburbs have some 2,000 public gradecrossings, 268 with whistle bans.• Even in the richestsuburbs there are well-concealed but frequently extensive neighborhoods inhabited by poor people.• All the socialworkers come in from their comfortable homes in the suburbs.• It invented the suburb - the most successfulinvention in the history of humanhabitation.• The rich send their children to private schools and the middle classes move to the suburbs.• My family moved to the suburbs when I was ten.• More and more people are moving to the suburbs every year.• City officials are wary of populationloss to suburbs and point with pride to the overall population gain that has accompanied annexation.• They have just bough a house in PacificPalisades, a wealthysuburb of Los Angeles.
suburb of• They live in Lakewood, a suburb of Denver.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + SUBURB | SUBURB + VERB | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤outer, outlying遠郊▸➤inner, inner-ring (NAmE) 近郊▸➤northern, southern, etc.北郊、南郊等➤surrounding周邊郊區◇people in the surrounding suburbs and small towns生活在周邊郊區和小鎮的人➤Berlin, Tokyo, etc.柏林、東京等的郊區▸➤affluent, comfortable, exclusive, prosperous, rich, smart, upmarket, upscale, wealthy富足的郊區;舒適的郊區;高檔的郊區;繁華的郊區;時尚的郊區;富裕的郊區▸➤poor貧窮的郊區▸➤middle-class, working-class中產階級居住的/工薪階層居住的郊區▸➤respectable上檔次的郊區▸➤pleasant宜人的郊區▸➤leafy, quiet樹木茂密的/安靜的郊區➤garden (especially BrE) 花園般的郊區▸➤grey/gray灰暗的郊區➤black, white黑人居住的/白人居住的郊區◇the mostly white suburb of Woodland Beach伍德蘭比奇以白人為主的郊區➤industrial, residential城郊工業區/居住區➤sprawling雜亂無序的郊區◇out beyond the sprawling suburbs雜亂無序的郊區以外VERB + SUBURB➤move to搬到郊區◇As soon as we can afford it, we'll move to the suburbs.一旦能負擔得起,我們就會搬到郊區去。SUBURB + VERB➤grow郊區發展◇The middle-class suburbs are growing fast.中產階級居住的郊區正在迅速發展。PREPOSITION➤from the suburbs來自郊區◇For a child from the suburbs, a trip to the city was a great adventure.對郊區的孩子來說,進城是一次大歷險。➤in a/the suburb在郊區◇She's renting in a suburb of Boston.她在波士頓的郊區租房子住。➤in the suburbs在市郊◇People often prefer to live in the suburbs and commute to work.人們往往喜歡住在郊區,乘車上下班。➤suburbs of⋯的郊區◇the coastal suburbs of the capital首都的沿海郊區