| 释义 |
purlieu/ˈpɜ:lju:/n. (pl. purlieus) 1 a person's bounds or limits (某人的)范围；界限 2 a person's usual haunts (某人)常去的地方 3 Brit. hist. a tract on the border of a forest, esp. one earlier included in it and still partly subject to forest laws [英史义]森林边缘地(尤指先前为森林的一部分、仍受森林法保护的地区) 4 (in pl. 用复数) the outskirts; an outlying region 外围地区；边缘地区 [Middle English purlew, probably alteration (suggested by French lieu ‘place’) of Anglo-French purale(e), Old French pourallee ‘a going round to settle the boundaries’, from po(u)raler ‘traverse’] |