in the suburbs

基本解釋

About half of black Americans now live in the suburbs, up from 43% in 2000.
如今近一半的美國黑人都居住在郊區(qū)，較2000 年的43% 有所增加。
That night, we stayed at a hotel in the suburbs called the Dream Castle. It had coats of arms in the lobby and a giant statue of a king in flowing robes.
這天晚上我們住在郊外一家名爲夢幻城堡的酒店裡，在酒店的大堂裡掛有軍裝做裝飾，還有一位穿著飄動戰(zhàn)袍的國王雕像。
Class-four restaurants are the last oases of natural companionship, and they tend to be in the suburbs rather than in the city; these are the places one remembers in prison.
那些四類餐館是人們仍會出自本性而湊在一起的最後的綠洲，這些餐館通常在郊外，不在城市裡；這些是一個人在監(jiān)獄裡麪會想起的地方。

Firefighters have so far protected most of the homes in the suburbs near Los Angeles, but scores have been lost.
But where I went to college, it's just over the bridge in the suburbs about 30 minutes.
但我的學校就在橋對麪的郊外，差不多30分鍾就能到。
與聖地亞哥不一樣 - SpeakingMax英語口語達人
American suburbs, many of you come from them-- Hillsborough, California; Darien, Connecticut; Grosse Pointe, Michigan; places like that. That's not what the suburbs are in Europe.
美國郊區(qū),你們大部分都是從那來的,希爾斯伯勒,加州,達連,康涅狄格州,格羅斯波恩特,密歇根州,像這種地方,歐洲的郊區(qū)可不是這樣
耶魯公開課 - 1871年後的法國課程節(jié)選

What about people in the suburbs slipping into poverty who were not previously there?
NPR: Poverty, Still Coming To A Suburb Near You