backyards

英 [ˌbækˈjɑːdz]

美 [ˈbæˌkjɑrdz]

n.  (屋后常有围墙的)后院; (包括草坪和花园的)屋后附属地带
backyard的复数

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。

双语例句

• It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston.
  它是在得梅因的后院，康科德的起居室里和查尔斯顿的门廊下组建的。
• I had time for a spy's glimpse into backyards – a view of cherished private plots and straggling geese – before we jolted to a halt.
  在我们的列车摇晃着停下来之前，我还来得及迅速瞥一眼居民的后院&看到的是妥善照料的自耕地和乱窜的鹅。
• Instead, both operators got big in their own backyards.
  相反，两家运营商都致力于在自己的后院发展壮大。
• But countless other acts of self-destruction and unthinkable acts of cruelty take place, unbeknownst to us, in our own backyards: the successful eye surgeon who gambles his kids'college tuition away;
  但是另有数不清其它自我毁灭式行为、不可想像残忍行为在不为我们所知的情况自己身边发生着：成功的眼科医生将自己孩子大学学费赌光；
• As power generation moves towards cleaner and smarter sources, small-scale photovoltaic panel arrays are springing up on roofs and in backyards.
  由于发电技术目前正向使用更清洁、更智能的原料的方向发展，因此小规模的光电板阵列如雨后春笋般涌现。
• The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted.
  他们后院的饲养站已经没有鸟儿光顾了。
• Or what is presently taking place in the former Soviet Union and in other countries eager to relocate noxious materials from their immediate backyards?
  又有谁知道前苏联各国，以及其它同样急于将自己制造的有毒物质迁出自家后院的国家又在对哪片海洋打着主意？
• Many of the bird species that breed in the temperate forests, marshes and backyards of North America spend the winter months in the tropics of the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
  许多在北美温带的森林、沼泽、草地等地区繁殖的鸟类，在冬季会飞去热带的加勒比海地区或者美国的中部、南部过冬。
• In our town, people took the trash from their houses out to large barrels in the alleys behind their backyards.
  在我们这个小镇，人们把垃圾从家中拿出来，放到后院外小巷的大垃圾桶里。
• The Fourth of July is traditionally a day of togetherness, when Americans gather with family, friends and neighbors in homes and in parks, in backyards and in public squares.
  七月四日传统上是一个团聚的日子。在这一天，美国人或在家里，或在公园，或在自家后院，或在广场，与家人、朋友或邻居在一起聚会。