0 a particular part of a place, piece of land, or country -- 地区；区域
Dogs are not allowed in the children's play area. 不许将狗带入儿童游乐区。
This is a very poor area. 这是一个非常贫困的地区。
He's an area manager (= is responsible for business in a particular area) for a computer company. 他是一家计算机公司的区域经理。
Houses in the London area (= in and around London) are very expensive. 伦敦地区的房价很高。
The area of New York to the south of Houston Street is known as Soho. 纽约休斯敦街以南区域被称作休南区。
All areas of the country will have some rain tonight. 今晚全国所有地区都将有降雨。
1 a subject or activity, or a part of it -- 领域；范围；方面
Software is not really my area of expertise. 软件并不属于我的专业范围。
Marketing is Paul's area. 市场营销属于保罗的职责范围。
2 the size of a flat surface calculated by multiplying its length by its width -- 面积
Meadow Farm is 50 square kilometres in area. “绿地农庄”面积50平方公里。
the area of a rectangle 长方形的面积
3 → penalty area -- （足球场上的）罚球区，禁区（同 penalty area）
One of its strengths is the diversity of the contact situations that are discussed, which range from major areas to minor case studies.
The open areas between the ribs are 27 mm wide and 100 mm high.
Men and women had separate bedrooms, but all other areas were used jointly.
A total of 600 ticks were caught by sweeping lowlying vegetation of all accessible areas at the zoos with a cotton flag (flagging method).
The patients are usually brought to hospitals at the late stage of illness in the rural areas.
Missing data are from areas that did not participate.
We, therefore, restrict ourselves to saying that there tend to be more hotspots in areas of higher manhole density.
There were areas of parkland that had no sewers and areas of housing which had no recorded takes.
