| 单词 | ghost town |
| 释义 | ghost town noun[C] uk/ˈɡəʊst ˌtaʊn/us/ˈɡoʊst ˌtaʊn/atownwhere few or nopeoplenowlive 被废弃的城镇Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general)
ghost town| American Dictionaryghost town noun[C] us/ˈɡoʊst ˌtɑʊn/a town that wasbusyin the past but is nowemptyornearlyemptybecause theactivitiesthatkeptpeoplethere havestopped Examplesofghost townghost town On the contrary, my listening pleasure has derived from entering an operaticghosttown. From theCambridge English Corpus From then until late 1991, theghosttowncampaigns took on a new intensity. From theCambridge English Corpus Transformation from brawny working-class city toghosttownis the end point - the metaphoric death - in most of these narratives. From theCambridge English Corpus Initially, when we arrived at theghosttownsites, the many rusty objects and structures were lying around silently, telling us stories of their working life, of their function. From theCambridge English Corpus It is aghosttownwhere no one lives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It has many of the attributes of aghosttown. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 If a railway workshop is taken away from a workshop town, that town soon becomes aghosttown. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The area will be turned into aghosttown. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Without it, the whole of docklands would have become aghosttownand a depressed area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole of the top end is like aghosttown, and those who are left are miserable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 What was once a prosperous and thriving place with an extremely successful tourist industry is now aghosttown. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 A new town is neither a dormitory nor aghosttownafter working hours. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The area is becoming something approaching aghosttown. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The town becomes a winterghosttown—no one lives there, no one is seen there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It has been described as aghosttown; it is desolate, isolated and empty. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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