downtown 是什么意思
adv. 往闹市区；在市区
downtown 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。
英语词源
downtown (n.)1835, from down (adv.) + town. The notion is of suburbs built on heights around a city.
downtown 权威例句
- 1. There is heavy traffic in the downtown area tonight.
- 今夜闹市区交通繁忙。
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- 2. a downtown shopping plaza
- 市中心的购物区
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- 3. The city is providing free transportation to the stadium from downtown.
- 本市现在提供从市中心到体育场的免费交通。
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- 4. 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.
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- 5. This was, New York apart, the first American city I had ever been in where people actually lived downtown.
- 除了纽约，这是我到过的第一个人们确实住在市中心的美国城市。
来自柯林斯例句
downtown 造句
- 1. Parking can be tricky downtown.
- 在市中心停车会很难。
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- 2. By day he worked downtown for American Standard.
- 白天，他在市中心为美国标准公司工作。
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- 3. There is heavy traffic in the downtown area tonight.
- 今夜闹市区交通繁忙。
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- 4. Police have defused a bomb found in a downtown building.
- 警察已拆除了在市中心一幢大楼里发现的一枚炸弹的引信。
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- 5. She produces legal documents for a downtown Seattle law firm.
- 她为西雅图市区的一家法律事务所撰写法律文件。
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- 6. The station is on the right, one mile before downtown Romney.
- 车站在右侧，罗姆尼市中心前方一英里处。
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- 7. The city is providing free transportation to the stadium from downtown.
- 本市现在提供从市中心到体育场的免费交通。
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- 8. His company recently constructed an office building in downtown Denver.
- 他的公司最近在丹佛市中心建造了一座办公楼。
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- 9. Interstate 295 is a 20-mile beltway that bypasses Jacksonville's busy downtown area.
- 295号州际公路是一条20英里长、绕过了杰克逊维尔的繁华市区的环路。
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- 10. This was, New York apart, the first American city I had ever been in where people actually lived downtown.
- 这是除纽约以外我所呆过的居民实际住在市中心的第一座美国城市。
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- 11. Maybe I should live downtown.
- 也许我应该住市区。
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- 12. She has gone downtown shopping.
- 她到市区买东西去了。
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- 13. Did you go through downtown?
- 你经过市中心了吗？
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- 14. Could you point me downtown?
- 你能告诉我去市中心的路吗？
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- 15. What's the best way to downtown?
- 去市中心最好的方法是什么？
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- 16. I'm calling from downtown Ottawa.
- 我是在渥太华市中心打电话。
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- 17. Let's go downtown this afternoon.
- 咱们今天下午去闹市区吧。
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- 18. He may have gone downtown.
- 他可能上闹市区去了。
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- 19. I'm going downtown myself.
- 我自己也正要到市区去。
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- 20. He goes to work downtown.
- 他在市区上班。
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- 21. Which bus goes downtown?
- 哪班车会到市中心？
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- 22. The cook went downtown.
- 厨师去市区了。
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- 23. Is your home around here or downtown?
- 你的家是在附近还是在市中心？
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- 24. I love to go downtown.
- 我喜欢去市中心。
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- 25. Did he go downtown?
- 他去市中心了吗？
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- 26. Tourists can live and eat downtown in Beijing.
- 游客可以在北京的市中心居住、吃饭。
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- 27. Cars were pulled from flooded streets in downtown.
- 市中心里的那些被洪水淹没在街道上的汽车，被拉了出来。
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- 28. Kate, why does the downtown area look deserted now?
- 凯特，为什么市中心现在看起来这么冷清？
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- 29. Our family went out, hanging round in the downtown area.
- 我们全家都出去到市中心闲逛去了。
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- 30. Assaults often occur on Friday and Saturday nights, near the bars downtown.
- 袭击通常发生在周五和周六的晚上，在市中心的酒吧附近。
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