township
township 英 [ˈtaʊnʃɪp] 美 [ˈtaʊnˌʃɪp]
n. 镇区；小镇
名词复数:townships
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- n. 镇区；小镇
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1. She was also one of the first lesbians to live openly in her township near Johannesburg.
她还是约翰内斯堡附近她所在的镇区第一个公开同性恋身份的人。
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2. As a vuvuzela chorale swelled from the barstools around him, one township doctor admitted to a Canadian writer he was experiencing a surge of “hope.
当酒吧里到处是对呜呜祖啦的赞美之声时，一位小镇医生坦白的告诉一位加拿大记者，他感到了无穷的希望。
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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。
- township (n.) Old English tunscipe "inhabitants or population of a town;" see town + -ship. Applied in Middle English to "manor, parish, or other division of a hundred." Specific sense of "local division or district in a parish, each with a village or small town and its own church" is from 1530s; as a local municipal division of a county in U.S. and Canada, first recorded 1685. In South Africa, "area set aside for non-whites" from 1934.
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