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- an area of a country or city, especially one regarded as a distinct unit because of a particular characteristic地区; 区域：
a coal-mining district.
煤矿区。
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- often as modifier a region defined for an administrative purpose行政区：
a district health authority.
地区卫生部门。
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- Brit. a division of a county or region that elects its own councilors〈英〉（郡或区以下的）选区。
with obj.
- N. Amer. divide into areas〈北美〉把…划分成区：
as noun districting the province's system of electoral districting.该省的选区划分方法。
词源
early 17th cent. (denoting the territory under the jurisdiction of a feudal lord)： from French， from medieval Latin districtus '(territory of) jurisdiction'， from Latin distringere 'draw apart'.