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

• 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。
• Is now a subterranean ghost town.
  现在已经是地下鬼城了。
• 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。
• The park became a ghost town.
  科技园变成了一座废城。
• 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。
• By analyzing the three events happening in ghost Street Art Warehouse and college town, the paper reveals that the possibility, underlying public participation and self-metabolism are of the great importance to the city.
  摘要该文通过对鬼街、艺术仓库以及大学城三个事件的分析，揭示了可能性、隐性公共参与以及自我更新对城市的重要性。
• Whenever the early morning when the Golden Rooster Bell night wandering ghosts will go back to ghost town.
  每当清晨金鸡长鸣的时候，夜晚出去游荡的鬼魂必赶回鬼域。
• 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。
• 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。
• Wickles has led us into a terrifying ghost town!
  维克斯领我们进了个恐怖的鬼城！