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

• I want this camp to be a ghost town in five minutes!
  我要这个营地在五分钟内废弃！
• 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。
• 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。
• Is now a subterranean ghost town.
  现在已经是地下鬼城了。
• After the romance of the Ming and Qing novel, the ghost town appears more mystery to people.
  经明清小说的渲染，丰都鬼城更加神秘怪诞。
• The campus, usually bustling with life, will probably turn into a ghost town, with most restaurants, shops and student centers closing during the break.
  以往熙熙攘攘、人声鼎沸的校园到了春节可能就会变成一座空城，因为大部分餐馆、商店和学生中心都放假关门了。
• Prypyat, the town closest to the site, is now an eerie ghost town at the centre of a largely uninhabited exclusion zone within a radius of30 km ( 19 miles).
  城市最近的位置，现在变成了可怕的鬼城，其位于半径30公里无人区的中心。
• In30 minutes, this is a ghost town.
  30分钟后，这里将是一片废墟。
• The part I selected the town of Redding, Connecticut, through the governance and development of brown land so that the great rejuvenation of the ghost town suffering from pollution case.
  本部分笔者选取了康涅狄格州雷丁镇通过对褐色土地的治理开发从而使饱受污染的幽灵小镇走向伟大复兴的案例。
• 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。