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单词 county town
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county town
noun[C]
UK
uk
/ˌkaʊn.ti ˈtaʊn/us
/ˌkaʊn.t̬i ˈtaʊn/
(UScounty seat)
the mostimportanttownorcityin acounty,especiallythe one where thelocalgovernmentisbased:
（英国）郡首府，郡政府所在地；（美国）县首府，县政府所在地
Cambridge is thecountytownof Cambridgeshire.剑桥是剑桥郡的首府。
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(Definition ofcounty townfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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Nonetheless, informal relationships in acountytownwere not entirely without structure.
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Being acountytownseems to have been more important than having a cathedral (although the two often coincided) and certainly more important than having a garrison.
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I could give illustrations where it is another realm altogether, thecountytownbeing much nearer to the next county.
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Take the case of a ratepayer living far away from thecountytown.
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It takes us a day and a-half to go to thecountytownto do our business and come back.
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People in the villages want to be run to thecountytownin the morning and brought quickly back at night.
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It is really much more convenient that these registers should be kept locally than that they should be kept at thecountytown.
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I know of onecountytownwhere there are two organisations dealing with exactly the same matters in the same street.
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Our historic archives will remain in one site— generally thecountytown, its present home—as now.
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There is the small baker's shop of thecountytown, with ovens attached to the shop, and it gets no relief.
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In that case yourcountytownis outside.
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A journey to acountytownmay be a matter of great inconvenience and expense, not only in money but in time.
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Not only is it in many cases difficult to get to thecountytownbut the journey has to be made several days running.
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However, my constituency contains 120 villages as well as thecountytown.
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We are 40 miles away from thecountytown.
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