province

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prov·ince /ˈprɒvəns $ ˈprɑː-/ noun

1 (also Province) [countableC]SG one of the large areas into which some countries are divided, and which usually has its own local government 省

a Chinese province

中国的一个省

2. the provinces SGthe parts of a country that are not near the capital 外省，地方〔指首都以外的地区〕

Examples from the Corpus

the provinces• Poor boys from the provinces could rise above the sons of tycoons if only they could pass the Todai entrance exam.• Her parents were not Parisians, they came from the provinces and Jeanne herself combined innocence with imaginative courage.• Rilke in Paris For the shy young man from the provinces life began seven floors up.• In 1789-90 the conviction rate in London was 79 percent and in the provinces 85 percent.• Life in the provinces was difficult.• In view of the unorthodox behaviour of the Komsomol that we have noted in the provinces, such a move was overdue.• In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted.• It also indicated that a referendum might well be held on the package prior to its submission to the provinces.• Yet after 1750 this group came to acquire a special connection with the provinces through its links with the country banks.

3 [singular] formalAREA OF KNOWLEDGE, DUTIES, STUDY ETC a subject that someone knows a lot about or something that only they are responsible for 范围，领域；职责范围

province of

Computers were once the exclusive province of scientists and mathematicians.

计算机一度为科学家和数学家专用。

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province• By this time, all provinces except Zambezia had at least 40 percent female enrolment.• For neo-populists, it is the social structure in these central provinces that is crucial.• He visited the other dioceses of his province, including a tour of several days to the Isle of Man.• The separatist movement began in the mid-1970s after the province was denied additional natural gas revenue.• Together with the political background in the province, this smallness of scale has complicated discussions of local government reorganisation.• Most tellingly, Labour's vote was well down on its 1990 performance in the provinces.• When Ottawa's programme expired in April, pressure mounted on the provinces to provide assistance.• Printers, modems and speakers were considered necessities, but scanners were the province of professional artists with money to burn.

province of• Computers were once the province of scientists and mathematicians.

Origin province

(1300-1400) Old French Latin provincia “Roman land”, from vincere “to defeat”

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