rural

adjective
🔊/ˈrʊərəl/
🔊/ˈrʊrəl/
[usually before noun]
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  1. connected with or like the countryside乡村的;农村的;似农村的
    • rural areas农村地区
    • Belarus is predominantly rural. 白俄罗斯以农村为主。
    • the rural community/population农村社区/人口
    • a rural economy农村经济
    • rural America美国乡村
    • a rural way of life乡村的生活方式
    • a small, quiet, rural village 一个安静的小乡村
    • a rural development program 农村发展计划
    compare urban
    Extra Examples
    • At the end of the 17th century England was still overwhelmingly rural.17 世纪末的英格兰仍然极具乡村色彩。
    • Sri Lanka's predominantly rural population斯里兰卡占绝大多数的乡村人口
    • the ideal of suburban or semi-rural living市郊或半乡村生活的设想
    • He grew up in a predominantly rural area.他在一个主要的农村地区长大。
    • Laramie is a small rural town in Wyoming.拉勒米(Laramie)是怀俄明州的一个小镇。
    Topics Geographyb2, Buildingsb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin ruralis, from rus, rur- ‘country’.