vicinity
vicinity 英 [vəˈsɪnəti] 美 [vɪˈsɪnɪti]
n. 邻近，附近；近处
名词复数:vicinities
- If something is in your vicinity, it's in the surrounding area or nearby region — it's in the neighborhood, so to speak. If there's a garbage dump in your vicinity, you'll certainly smell it.
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- n. 邻近，附近；近处
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1. Crowds gathered in the vicinity ofTrafalgar Square.
成群结队的人聚集在特拉法尔加广场周围。
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2. There is no hospital in the immediate vicinity.
附近没有医院。
- vicinity (n.) 1550s, "nearness in place," from Middle French vicinité and directly from Latin vicinitas "of or pertaining to neighbors or a neighborhood," as a noun, "neighborhood, nearness, proximity," from vicinus (adj.) "of the neighborhood, near, neighboring," as a noun "the neighborhood, a neighbor," from vicus "group of houses, village," related to the -wick, -wich in English place names, from PIE root *weik-(1) "clan." Meaning "neighborhood, surrounding district" in English is attested by 1796.
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