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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Kenya's second-largest city, however, is hardly a ghost town.
  肯尼亚第二大城市几几乎成为了幽灵之城。
• The airport was like a ghost town, the terminal was empty and eerily silent.
  机场像座鬼城，候机大楼空空荡荡，寂静得可怕。
• Is now a subterranean ghost town.
  现在已经是地下鬼城了。
• Lassoo's a ghost town.
  拉苏现在是个鬼城了。
• 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。