0 an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city often live -- 城郊；近郊住宅区
The monolingual children were attending childcare programs in middle-class suburbs of a large city.
Most inhabitants of the new suburbs, however, were not foreign-born.
As for samples collected in the city centre, those from western suburbs in residential districts remain differentiated whatever the period examined.
Owning a car made it possible to live in the suburbs and drive to work.
Immigrants living on these streets moved to the newly built suburbs or elsewhere in town.
Despite having removed to the suburbs, nonconformists continued to worship in city centre chapels.
The city pursued parallel programmes of building high-rise flats both in the central areas on slum cleared land and in its suburbs on greenfield sites.
Nevertheless, the city's population continued to increase and new suburbs developed outside the original town walls.
