英汉词典

town 基本解释

• n. 城镇，市镇；市内商业区
• n. (Town)人名；(英)汤

town 词态变化

town 中文词源

来自古英语 tun,村庄，围场，居住区，来自 Proto-Germanic*tuna,栏杆，围栏，来自 PIE*dheue, 围，围住，词源同 down,tune.后用于指城镇，在过去与 city 常混用。

town 英文词源

town

town: [OE] The ancestral meaning of town is ‘enclosed place’ – amongst its relatives are German zaun ‘hedge, fence’ and Old Irish dūn ‘fort, camp, fortified place’. Its Old English forerunner tūn was used for an ‘enclosure’ or ‘yard’, and also for a ‘building or set of buildings within an enclosure’, hence a ‘farm’. This in due course evolved to a ‘cluster of dwellings’, and by the 12th century the modern English sense of the word was in place (the standard Old English term for ‘town’ was burg, ancestor of modern English borough).

The -ton ending of English place-names goes back in many cases to a time when the word meant ‘farmstead’.

town (n.)

Old English tun "enclosure, garden, field, yard; farm, manor; homestead, dwelling house, mansion;" later "group of houses, village, farm," from Proto-Germanic *tunaz, *tunan "fortified place" (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Norse, Old Frisian tun "fence, hedge," Middle Dutch tuun "fence," Dutch tuin "garden," Old High German zun, German Zaun "fence, hedge"), an early borrowing from Celtic *dunon "hill, hill-fort" (cognates: Old Irish dun, Welsh din "fortress, fortified place, camp," dinas "city," Gaulish-Latin -dunum in place names), from PIE *dhu-no- "enclosed, fortified place, hill-fort," from root *dheue- "to close, finish, come full circle" (see down (n.2)).

Meaning "inhabited place larger than a village" (mid-12c.) arose after the Norman conquest from the use of this word to correspond to French ville. The modern word is partially a generic term, applicable to cities of great size as well as places intermediate between a city and a village; such use is unusual, the only parallel is perhaps Latin oppidium, which occasionally was applied even to Rome or Athens (each of which was more properly an urbs).

First record of town hall is from late 15c. Town ball, version of baseball, is recorded from 1852. Town car (1907) originally was a motor car with an enclosed passenger compartment and open driver's seat. On the town "living the high life" is from 1712. Go to town "do (something) energetically" is first recorded 1933. Man about town "one constantly seen at public and private functions" is attested from 1734.

town 词组搭配

town 英文释义

1. an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city;

"they drive through town on their way to work"

2. an administrative division of a county;

"the town is responsible for snow removal"

3. the people living in a municipality smaller than a city;

"the whole town cheered the team"

town 同义词解析

city, town

这两个名词均含"城市"之意。

city： 一般指大城市或重要城市。

town： 一般指规模小的城镇，也指城市中的市区，有时也泛指城市。

town 双语例句

1. They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.

他们偶然来到一个居住着一位狡诈的淘金者的废墟之城。

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2. The new town would have been unrecognisable to the original inhabitants.

原来的居民可能会认不出这个崭新的城镇了。

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3. As he talked, an airforce jet screamed over the town.

他谈话时，一架军用喷气式飞机在镇子上空呼啸而过。

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4. Distantly, to her right, she could make out the town of Chiffa.

在她右边，远远的，她依稀能辨认出希法镇。

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5. I never go on the bus into the town.

我从不坐公共汽车去城里。

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town 实用场景例句

a university town

大学城

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They live in a rough part of town.

他们居住在一个社会秩序混乱的城区。

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The nearest town is ten miles away.

最近的集镇离这里有十英里远。

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We spent a month in the French town of Le Puy.

我们在一个叫勒皮的法国小镇里待了一个月。

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The whole town is talking about it.

全镇的人都在议论这件事。

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Can you give me a lift into town?

我可以搭你的车到商业区去吗？

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I'll be in town next week if you want to meet.

如果你想见面的话，我下个星期在城里。

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He married a girl from out of town.

他娶了一个外地姑娘。

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Pollution is just one of the disadvantages of living in the town.

污染只是生活在城里的不利条件之一。

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a night on the town

去娱乐场所作乐的夜晚

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How about going out on the town tonight?

今晚出去痛痛快快地玩一玩怎么样？

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...Saturday night in the small town of Braintree, Essex...

埃塞克斯郡布伦特里小镇的周六之夜

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Parking can be tricky in the town centre.

在市镇中心停车可能会挺费事。

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He admits he doesn't even know when his brother is in town...

他承认自己甚至不知道弟弟什么时候来了本市。

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She left town.

她离开了自己生活的城镇。

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I walked around town...

我在市中心逛了逛。

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I caught a bus into town.

我赶上辆公交车去了市中心。

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More people are going to want to escape from the town into the country…

更多的人将会想要逃离城市到乡村去。

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It had the advantages of town and country combined.

它兼具都市与乡村的优势。

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We really went to town on it, turning it into a full, three-day show...

我们下了真功夫，把它办成了一场内容丰富、为时三天的展览。

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The papers got hold of it and went to town on it…

报纸抓住这件事大做文章。

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He was known as a tall, handsome man about town…

他以高大英俊的花花公子形象为人所知。

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He is an old flame of Sarah's, from her days as a single girl about town.

他是萨拉的旧情人，是她作为单身时髦女郎时的旧爱。

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My idea of luxury used to be going out on the town and coming back in the early hours of the morning...

我过去对奢侈的概念是夜晚在闹市通宵玩乐到清晨才回来。

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Last Saturday, I was out on the town with my mate…

上个星期六我和老友晚上去闹市玩乐了。

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