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单词 borough
释义
borough
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbʌr.ə/us
/ˈbɝː.oʊ/
atown, or adivisionof alargetown
市镇；大城市中的行政区
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Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities
Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general)
(Definition ofboroughfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • Every individual detail and local development is left to the committee which each mayor or town or borough official appoints, on invitation of the league.
  • For the last few years this system has been in operation in the borough of Liverpool, with the result that the number of known thieves apprehended for indictable crimes has almost doubled within a comparatively short period.
  • It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, constables, marshals of incorporated cities, towns, and boroughs, and of all prosecuting attorneys, to inform and prosecute all offences against this act.
  • London stood first among English towns, and the privileges which its citizens won became precedents for the burghers of meaner boroughs.
  • The wealthy merchants typically represented the boroughs and paid much of the taxes.

borough| American Dictionary

borough
noun[C]
us
/ˈbɜr·oʊ,ˈbʌr·oʊ/
one of the fivedivisionsof New York City or, in somestates, atownorpartof atown
InAlaska, a borough is apoliticaldivisionsimilarto acountyin otherstates.
(Definition ofboroughfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofborough

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The town clerk and theboroughsurveyor reinforced these points in their statements to the inquiry.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Compared to the borough's population, few aged in the fifties took part.
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They have one son who now lives in an adjoiningborough.
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The registration law of successive occupation stipulated that those electors who moved only within a parliamentaryboroughwould not be disqualified by the move.
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One point of continuity was the cities and boroughs.
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This amounts to about 75 per cent of the personnel of over one half the nation'sboroughcorporations.
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The latter may explain why the research finds 'no positive correlation between tax levels and service quality', in the boroughs (p. 384).
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And, as a castle town andborough, and a market centre with a reasonably fertile hinterland, the town had attracted settlers from an early date.
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Second, the subpopulations within patients are even more strongly differentiated than the subpopulations of their respective boroughs.
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To reiterate, the arbitrators were not all oligarchs and were men at rather different stages of theirboroughcareers.
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There are many other instances, however, where boroughs were not so clear-cut in their commitment (or otherwise) to health policy in general.
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The human population density is quite high and it is an ' inner city 'borough.
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Delegates identified aspects of what they would like to see in the future for themselves as well as improvements to theborough.
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It is possible that they could not afford to spend at a very high level compared with larger and wealthier boroughs.
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At that time, the majority of powers were transferred from theboroughvillages to the local government.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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