neighbourhood
/ˈneɪbəhʊd/( <美> neighborhood)
noun
1- a district, especially one forming a community within a town or city地区(尤指社区):
she lived in a wealthy neighbourhood of Boston.
她生活在波士顿一个富人区。
1.1
- mass noun neighbourly feeling or conduct邻里情谊, 邻居间的友善关系:
the importance of neighbourhood to old people.
邻里间情谊对老人的重要性。
1.2
- the area surrounding a particular place, person, or object邻近地区, 附近:
he was reluctant to leave the neighbourhood of London.
他不愿意离开伦敦的附近地区。
1.3
- Mathematics the set of points whose distance from a given point is less than (or less than or equal to) some value【数】领域。
短语
in the neighbourhood of
- approximately; about左右, 大约, 约为:
the cost would be in the neighbourhood of three billion.
成本大约为30亿。