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 outskirts ['autskә:ts]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 近郊, 市郊



    outskirts
    [ noun ]
    outlying areas (as of a city or town)
    <noun.location>
    they lived on the outskirts of Houstonthey mingled in the outskirts of the crowd


    1. Perhaps Columbus, had been right, after all. I took my leave of the finest green refuge on New York City's outskirts: the evening bell was sounding and somebody was driving a car along the lower terrace to remind us that highway morals rule.
    2. City officials rushed to put Holly's name on a park, built on the outskirts of town over an old landfill.
    3. The reason lies in political machines like the one that rules the vast garbage dumps on the outskirts of Mexico City.
    4. The explosion and fire set off panic among residents of Guadalupe, a small city on Monterrey's outskirts about 440 miles north of Mexico City.
    5. At the time Korczak was teaching medical students and operating a big, humanistic orphanage on the outskirts of Warsaw.
    6. In the mid-1980s Peugeot began plans to modernize and expand its plant in Sochaux, a nearly 100-year-old facility sandwiched between the outskirts of the city and the river Allan.
    7. After a hectic car chase through the outskirts of Turin, police arrested a man suspected of armed robbery.
    8. However, in June 1981, Israeli warplanes bombed and destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor on the outskirts of the capital, Baghdad.
    9. Most of the troops that moved into city outskirts Friday night had withdrawn to points further away from the city, and residents had removed many of the barricades they had set up to block a troop advance into the city.
    10. The accident occurred at a plant operated by Txane Ltd. on the outskirts of Market Harborough, about 80 miles northwest of London, police said.
    11. As with many other small cities, big discount department stores on the outskirts of town have put a squeeze on the downtown business district, where the city has begun a $450,000 revitalization project.
    12. Demands for controls over ownership of exotic animals escalated Thursday after a mysterious black panther eluded a dragnet on the outskirts of Rome.
    13. Voters included colorfully dressed Highland Indians from the outskirts of the capital.
    14. About 50 people who were forced from their homes by a forest fire on the outskirts of Kalispell, Mont., were allowed to return Saturday after crews managed to get a line around the 120-acre blaze.
    15. The Peruvian government and Austrian Embassy said police found Piescher's body Monday on the outskirts of Pucallpa, 355 miles northeast of Lima.
    16. A police spokesman said members of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, or Party of God, opened fire on the bus in the Ouzai district in the southern outskirts of the capital as the vehicle headed toward south Lebanon.
    17. The Nobel Peace Prize winner came to South Africa to establish a charity mission in Khayelitsha, a black township on the outskirts of Cape Town.
    18. Police raided a villa on the outskirts of Naples and arrested one of the reputed top bosses of the Camorra organized crime syndicate.
    19. Nonetheless there is concern about developments on the outskirts of Munich, while in Frankfurt the current vacancy level - 3 per cent - could rise to 5 per cent by the end of next year.
    20. Communist Party chief Egon Krenz, once Honecker's protege, recently moved out of Wandlitz and showed a television crew around his new more modest home on the outskirts of Berlin last weekend.
    21. On a 90-mile flight from Sulaymaniyah to Arbil, geometric grids of new concrete dwellings rose along highways or on the outskirts of large towns.
    22. Two weeks ago, a similar accident occurred on the outskirts of Dhaka.
    23. The six priests were slain as guerrillas and troops battled through the outskirts of San Salvador in an offensive the rebels launched Nov. 11.
    24. Its magnificent headquarters is situated on the outskirts of Frankfurt, some 50 miles from the central government at Bonn. When the government moves to Berlin, the politicians will be even farther away.
    25. In a sprawling factory on the outskirts of Cuernavaca, Nissan Motor Corp. produces the best-selling car in Mexico, the Tsuru.
    26. The most serious bombing occurred Friday at Concepcion's soft drink company on the outskirts of Manila.
    27. An army reconnaissance plane struck a utility pole and crashed into a rice field on the outskirts of Bangkok on Tuesday, killing the two officers aboard, authorities said.
    28. Meanwhile, police in Dublin said they had uncovered a cache of weapons, including 30 Soviet-made Kalashnikov semi-automatic rifles, in a makeshift bunker beaneath a shed at Malahide in the city's northern outskirts.
    29. The army said Matthews was leading a police and army foot patrol on the outskirts of Cullyhanna village in southern Armagh Wednesday when a bomb hidden by the side of the road went off. He was wounded in the head and body.
    30. Soldiers immediately began to remove mines and fill in trenches made by the rebels to defend their positions at the seized Villa Martelli base on the outskirts of the city.
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