outskirts
outskirts — 名詞
1. the outer areas of a settlement, away from the main shopping and business distri
郊區
城鎮遠離中心的外圍地帶
the outer areas of a settlement, away from the main shopping and business district, where houses become fewer and the land turns towards open countryside.
The Watanabe family bought a house on the outskirts of Osaka, where land was cheaper.
Watanabe 一家在大阪郊區買了房子，那裡的土地比較便宜。
prepositional phrase: on the outskirts of [place]
A new recycling plant was built on the outskirts of Leeds, just off the motorway.
里茲郊區新建了一座回收廠，就在高速公路旁邊。
Dr. Nkosi lives on the outskirts of Nairobi and drives into the city each day.
Nkosi 醫生住在奈洛比郊區，每天開車進市中心上班。
plural noun agrees with singular subject + singular verb
- on the outskirts
- the outskirts of
- live on the outskirts
- move to the outskirts
- the northern/southern/eastern/western outskirts
- suburbs
more specific — refers to residential neighbourhoods on the edge of a city; 'outskirts' can include industrial and undeveloped land too
- periphery
more formal and abstract; suits geography or academic writing rather than everyday conversation
- edge
simpler and less specific — 'edge' can refer to any boundary, not just that of a settlement
- city centre
the central business district of a city, which is the opposite location
- downtown
American English equivalent of 'city centre', referring to the core urban area
文法句型
the outskirts of [place]
用法筆記
Always used with the definite article ('the outskirts'). The noun is grammatically plural, so it takes a plural verb (e.g. 'the outskirts are'), but when the focus is on a single location, singular agreement is also heard in informal speech. Only 1 sense exists among standard dictionaries, so no cross-sense confusion is possible.
常見錯誤
同根字
- outskirt名詞C2