ghost town

英 [ˈɡəʊst taʊn]

美 [ˈɡoʊst taʊn]

n.  (曾一度繁华的)被废弃的城镇

牛津词典

noun

• （曾一度繁华的）被废弃的城镇
  a town that used to be busy and have a lot of people living in it, but is now empty

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 鬼城；繁华不再的废城
  Aghost townis a town which used to be busy and wealthy but is now poor and deserted.
  1. Mogadishu is said to be a virtual ghost town, deserted by two-thirds of its residents.
     摩加迪沙2/3的居民已弃城而去，据说已成了一座名副其实的废都。

英英释义

noun

• a deserted settlement (especially in western United States)

双语例句

• After the romance of the Ming and Qing novel, the ghost town appears more mystery to people.
  经明清小说的渲染，丰都鬼城更加神秘怪诞。
• But there have been negative effects also, standing on a sandy beach at the mouth of the Rosetta branch of the Nile, I was puzzled by what seemed a ghost town.
  站在洛塞塔河口的沙滩上&尼罗河的一个支流，我仿佛看见了一座鬼城，令人毛骨悚然。
• Let people use bridge skyshatter stone ghost town of watching over them, can absorb force they didn't be deceived.
  石破天让人用桥山镇鬼法吸收他们留意力，可他们没受骗。
• Your boss's biggest concern will probably be that the office will be a ghost town on Fridays and Mondays, since many people may want a condensed work week and a long weekend.
  你老板最关心的事情大概就是，因为很多人都想每周的工作时间更短，周末的时间更长，这样的话星期一和星期五办公室变成了一座空屋。
• The part I selected the town of Redding, Connecticut, through the governance and development of brown land so that the great rejuvenation of the ghost town suffering from pollution case.
  本部分笔者选取了康涅狄格州雷丁镇通过对褐色土地的治理开发从而使饱受污染的幽灵小镇走向伟大复兴的案例。
• The bus is starting to roll down the rutted dirt road in Dongfa village, carrying the young worker and his wife away from this ghost town near the Russian border.
  中巴车开上东发村印满车辙的泥土路，载着这位年轻工人和他的太太离开这个靠近俄罗斯边界的穷乡僻壤。
• The resort is like a ghost town in winter.
  这个度假胜地在冬天像是一个废弃的城镇。
• Lassoo's a ghost town.
  拉苏现在是个鬼城了。
• The park became a ghost town.
  科技园变成了一座废城。
• As such, to cruise through minamisoma, as I did this past weekend with a colleague, Tokyo-based freelance reporter hideko Takayama, is to visit a nuclear ghost town.
  上周末，我跟我的同事、常驻东京的自由记者高山秀子乘车在南相马市四处转悠了一圈，拜访了这座核废城。