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

• New labor laws forced the sweatshops to evacuate, leaving SoHo a ghost town desperate for a makeover.
  而新的劳工法迫使这些血汗工厂迁走了，使得苏荷区成为了一个亟需改造的弃城。
• 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。
• Let people use bridge skyshatter stone ghost town of watching over them, can absorb force they didn't be deceived.
  石破天让人用桥山镇鬼法吸收他们留意力，可他们没受骗。
• Bodi was built in1876, is a real American ghost town.
  伯帝建于1876年，是一座真实的美国鬼城。
• 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。
• When will Azeroth being getting a significant revamp, it is practically a ghost town with the exception of low level guildies?
  艾则拉斯什么时候能有一次大的修补？那地方除了那些低级别的人物以外跟鬼城一样。
• In30 minutes, this is a ghost town.
  30分钟后，这里将是一片废墟。
• 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。
• The park became a ghost town.
  科技园变成了一座废城。