| 单词 | small-town |
| 释义 | ˈsmall-town adjective [only before noun] 1 TOWNfrom, or relating to, a small town （来自）小镇的 a small-town newspaper 一份小镇上的报纸2 American English (also smallville /ˈsmɔːlvɪl $ ˈsmɒːl-/)INTERESTED# relating to ideas, qualities etc that people in small towns are supposed to have, which sometimes include a lack of interest in anything new or different 偏狭的，狭隘保守的 → parochial small-town attitudes 狭隘的看法Examples from the Corpussmall-town• In his elegant clothes, Wilfred could have passed easily for Bat Masterson instead of a small-town banker.• Novelist Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt was the archetypal small-town booster.• He wouldn't look twice at a small-town girl, even if she could design wedding dresses.• Nor were they inconsequential gossip and rumor being whispered by small-town idlers on local street corners.• Finally within the context of small-town morphology, we might briefly consider the question of the location of cemeteries.• Such diversity is to be expected and may indicate different categories of settlement within the small-town range.• They found, however, that this relationship only held up for workers in small-town settings.• small-town valuesˈsmall-town adjectiveChineseSyllable to, relating or a Corpus small from, town |
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