environs
environs 英 [ɪnˈvaɪrənz] 美 [ɛnˈvaɪrənz, -ˈvaɪənz]
n. 市郊，郊区；周围（environ的复数） v. 围绕；包围（environ的第三人称单数）
名词复数:environs
- The environs are the areas surrounding a specific place. If you want to go to Boston and its environs on vacation, you might spend time in downtown Boston, but you may also visit Cambridge, Braintree, and Lexington.
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- n. 市郊，郊区；周围（environ的复数）
- v. 围绕；包围（environ的第三人称单数）
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1. Shuttles didn't begin to fly until 1981, after which Kennedy and its environs enjoyed a period of relative economic stability.
航天飞机直到1981年才开始飞行，之后肯尼迪及其郊区享受了一段经济相对稳定时期。
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2. But Petraeus established a network of joint security stations in the neighborhoods of Baghdad and its environs where U.S. troops and Iraqi forces live and work together.
彼得乌斯在巴格达及其周围建立了一个由保安站组成的网络，由美国军队和伊拉克军队一起工作生活。
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3. I think that we are so antiseptically many of us. I mean here we are in Princeton in this very little township. Twenty minutes away, people are suffering greatly in Trenton, in those environs.
我想，可能是我们中的大多数,都太不敏感，比如我们身处普林斯顿,这个小镇，在我们相隔二十分钟路程的特伦敦，和其他郊区，那里的人们,正在痛苦之中。
- environs (n.) "outskirts," 1660s, from French environs, plural of Old French environ "compass, circuit," from environ (adv.) "around, round about" (see environ).
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