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

• Is now a subterranean ghost town.
  现在已经是地下鬼城了。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The park became a ghost town.
  科技园变成了一座废城。
• 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。
• Wickles has led us into a terrifying ghost town!
  维克斯领我们进了个恐怖的鬼城！
• The resort is like a ghost town in winter.
  这个度假胜地在冬天像是一个废弃的城镇。