0 a group of houses and other buildings that is smaller than a town, usually in the countryside -- 村庄；村子
The village is/are campaigning for a by-pass to be built. 全体村民正在积极呼吁，要求修建一条旁道。
Many people come from the outlying/surrounding villages to work in the town. 很多人从周围的乡村来到这座城里工作。
a village green (= an area of grass in the middle of a village) 乡村绿地
a village shop 乡村商店
a mountain village 山村
a fishing village 渔村
In the office, immigration agents recorded the passage of travellers not known to be permanent residents of the adjoining villages.
The 'free people' were mainly farmers, who lived in villages among their estates.
Roads are the main source of human disturbance in these forests, because villages are sited on the roads.
During the intermediate stops in villages on the way to the predetermined clinic site family planning counselling, pills, foam and condoms are provided.
The free miners are abstracted from the agrarian life of the villages in which mining took place.
The agrarian landscape of the area soon began to resemble that of conventional villages, with fields driven into very different directions and gradually left fallow.
In many villages, leaders have specified strict rules in their agreements with water managers that they cannot exclude households from water allocation schedules.
Cross-sectional studies in similar villages revealed relatively uniform prevalence of parasitemia across age groups during the first year of exposure [20].
