backyard

英 [ˌbækˈjɑːd]

美 [ˌbækˈjɑːrd]

n.  (屋后常有围墙的)后院; (包括草坪和花园的)屋后附属地带

复数：backyards　

Collins.1 / BNC.14656 / COCA.4387

习惯用语

n.

in your (own) backyard
• 在自己生活（或工作）的地方附近；在自己的后院
  in or near the place where you live or work
• The residents didn't want a new factory in their backyard.
  居民不希望在他们附近建新工厂。
• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard (= from his own members) .
  该党领导面临着党内人士的反对。

牛津词典

noun

• （屋后常有围墙的）后院
  an area with a hard surface behind a house, often surrounded by a wall
• （包括草坪和花园的）屋后附属地带
  the whole area behind and belonging to a house, including an area of grass and the garden
  1. a backyard barbecue
     后院烤肉野宴

柯林斯词典

• 后院
  Abackyardis an area of land at the back of a house.
• N-COUNT （某国的）后院（指本土或该国意欲施加影响的邻近地区）
  If you refer to a country's ownbackyard, you are referring to its own territory or to somewhere that is very close and where that country wants to influence events.
  1. Economics will not stop Europe's politicians complaining when jobs are lost in their own backyard...
     当本国人口在失业时，经济情况是无法让欧洲的政治家停止抱怨的。
  2. Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, an area that the United States has long regarded as its own backyard.
     古巴是加勒比地区最大的岛屿，美国长期以来一直把它看作自己的后院。

英英释义

noun

• the grounds in back of a house

双语例句

• Bob ad his father constructed a tool shed in the backyard.
  鲍伯和他父亲在后院建了一间放工具的仓库。
• He had an assemblage of old junk cars filling the backyard.
  他的后院里堆满了废旧汽车。
• The two boys were camping in the backyard.
  现在几点了？两个男孩子在后院露营，他们不知道到了晚上几点钟。
• I've been robbed in my own backyard!
  我在自家后院被抢了！
• I freaked out when I saw the bear in my backyard.
  我在我家后院看见那只熊真把我吓了一大跳。
• Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, an area that the United States has long regarded as its own backyard.
  古巴是加勒比地区最大的岛屿，美国长期以来一直把它看作自己的后院。
• We were playing with Rose in my backyard when I told him his epidermis was showing.
  当时我们和罗丝在我家后院玩，我对他说他的表皮露出来了。
• She came, she clucked, she conquered our New York City backyard.
  她来了，咯咯叫，并征服了我们的纽约市的后院。
• My parents helped me to plant a small tree in our backyard when I was very small.
  在我很小的时候，我父母帮助我一起在我们家后院种了一棵小树。
• We have just planted some tulips in our backyard garden.
  我们刚在我们后院种了一些郁金香。