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downtown

英 ['daʊntaʊn] 美['daʊn'taʊn]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

反义词

adv. 往闹市区；在市区
adj. 市中心的
n. 市中心区；三分线以外

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中文词源

downtown 市中心

通常认为该词来自早期纽约市的规划，在1830年的时候，纽约城区集中在曼哈顿岛南端，后来，随着经济的发展北扩，而up and down对应于地图上北和南。后来，downtown就作为市中心的代称，而uptown则作为居住区的代称。

英英释意

1. the commercial center of a town or city

英文词源

downtown (n.): 1835, from down (adv.) + town. The notion is of suburbs built on heights around a city.

考试真题

And are there any rules or regulations that you’d like to change?Behind the cash register at a store in downtown San Francisco, Sam Azar swiped his credit card to pay for a pack of cigarettes.

I did extremely well on the sale of my downtown apartment.

He owns a piece of land in the downtown area

But assaults often occur on Friday and Saturday nights, near the bars downtown.

Rapes rarely occur in the downtown areas

18-hour cities combine the best of 24-hour and 9-5 cities, which contributes to downtown revitalization.

For decades, many downtown cores in small to mid-sized cities were abandoned after work hours by workers who lived in the suburbs.

Movement out of city centers was widespread, and downtown tenants were predominantly made up of the working poor.

These adjustments encourage employers in the knowledge and talent industries to keep their offices downtown.

This generated little commerce for downtown businesses in the evenings, which made business and generating tax revenue for municipal upkeep difficult.

Transforming downtown areas so that they incorporate modem housing and improved walkability to local restaurants, retail, and entertainment—especially when combined with improved infrastructure for cyclists and public transit—makes them appeal to a more a

Bechtel, who works in downtown west palm beach, has lunch with coworkers sometimes, but like many of us, too often works through lunch at her desk.

Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their big apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion.

How did Steve feel at the concert held in downtown Portland？

One day, when she was five years old, she was walking with her mother in downtown winnipeg.

The family rented a former church in downtown portland and scheduled a concert.

实用场景例句

to go/work downtown: 到商业中心区去；在商业中心区工作

a downtown store: 闹市区的商店

[不可数名词]a hotel in the heart of downtown: 市区中心的旅馆

...an office in downtown Chicago.: 位于芝加哥市中心的办事处

I have decided to go downtown today.: 我决定今天到城里去.

And could you tell me how to call a friend of mine living downtown?: 请你告诉我如何打电话给住在市区的一个朋友好吗 ?

She wondered passionately what was going on downtown.: 她紧张地猜想现在商业区已经变成什么样子.

The cook has go downtown.: 厨师到闹市区去了.

He went downtown for a vacuum cleaner.: 他去闹市区买吸尘器.

They flocked to the West Lake scenic area and downtown areas.: 西湖景区和市中心地区游人如织.

The Fragrance Foundation held its 2009 FiFi Awards at the Downtown Armory in New York.: 该香水基金会举行了2009年香水奥斯卡奖在市区军械库在纽约举行.

Please mind the coming train is an express train towards downtown.: 请留意即将进站列车为快速进入市区的列车.

We went downtown to visit our friend.: 我们进城去拜访朋友.

They went downtown to see a ballet.: 他们进城去看芭蕾.

Better , drop in and have a cigar, if you are downtown.: 是的, 你要是去闹市区,不妨就来店里抽只雪茄.

We're on the turnpike. just two miles from downtown.: 我们就在高速公路上——离市区只有两英里.

A : Excuse me. This bus goes downtown , doe't it ?: 对不起, 请问这路车到商业区吧 ?

B: I'm going downtown shopping. Do you want to come along with me?: 乙: 我到商业区去买东西, 您想跟我一块去吗 ?

Do you think I can take the subway for downtown?: 你:你想我可以搭乘地铁去市区吗 ?

They are heading for downtown.: 他们要进城去.

Project Background and Conditions: Changle Resort at the west suburb of Lanxi, 15 kms from the downtown.: 项目背景及建设条件: 诸葛·长乐旅游区位于浙江省兰溪市西郊15公里.

He promised to meet us downtown without fail.: 他答应一定在市中心跟我们碰头.

I'm going to shop downtown today. Want to join me?: 我今天向区市中心买东西, 想一起去吗 ?

Wait until I tell you, William! I've been downtown and I saw just what I wanted.: 等一下, 威廉,让我告诉你. 我去了市区,看到了一件我正想要的东西.

You have to balance the advantages of living downtown against the disadvantages.: 你必须权衡住在市中心的利弊.

Where can I take a bus if I want to go back to the downtown area?: 去市中心该在哪儿坐车?

Chen Academy which is located in Guangzhou downtown.: 位于广州市中心的陈氏书院.

The councillors put the problem of downtown parking before the mayor.: 议员们向市长提出了市内停车的问题.

There is heavy traffic in the downtown area tonight.: 今夜闹市区交通繁忙。

a downtown shopping plaza: 市中心的购物区