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

• They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
  他们偶然来到一个居住着一位狡诈的淘金者的废墟之城。
• Optimists counter that Shanghai's Pudong New Area felt like a ghost town when it was built, pretty much from scratch, in the 1990s. Now it is China's Wall Street.
  乐观的人们反驳说，上世纪90年代，上海的浦东新区从零开始建起来之后感觉就像是一个鬼城。现在，它是中国的华尔街。
• In30 minutes, this is a ghost town.
  30分钟后，这里将是一片废墟。
• I want this camp to be a ghost town in five minutes!
  我要这个营地在五分钟内废弃！
• 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。
• 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 place is starting to look like a ghost town.
  这里越来越变得跟幽灵镇一样可怕。
• 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。
• If your office is a ghost town by 3PM every Friday, it is a pretty good sign that procrastination is running rampant.
  如果你的办公室主每周五下午3点就变成了一个鬼城，这是说明拖延症正在猖獗进行的一个很明显的信号。
• 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。