0 an area, especially one that is different from the areas around it because it has different characteristics or is used for different purposes -- （尤指有不同特征或用途的）地带，地区
temperate zones 温带
The UN Security Council has established a no-fly zone (= one where aircraft are not permitted to fly). 联合国安全理事会设定了一处禁飞区。
This stretch of coast has been designated a danger zone. 这段海岸已被划定为危险地带。
He was charged with driving at 75 mph in a 55 mph zone. 他被指控在限速55英里的区域内驾车时速达到75英里。
a nuclear-free zone 无核区
an earthquake zone 地震带
1 to give a special purpose to a particular area, such as an area in a town -- 将…划作特殊区域；指定…为某项用途的区域
The former dockyard has been zoned for industrial use. 以前的造船厂被辟为了工业用地。
They represent two extremes of radiation resistance, defining a pragmatic ' surviving zone for life'.
These three very different volumes are testimony to the richness, variety and fascination of this crucial zone of the most extraordinary city in the world.
This computer interface could be placed easily in the expressive zone left unused by the instrument, namely finger pressure on the keys.
He also noted sudden thickening of coals along zones adjacent to belts of thin coal, which was ascribed to redeposition by flooding.
The staircases are arranged in an internal zone, transversal to the largest side.
The first committees to be elected had only six months to learn about governance before the safe zone suddenly disintegrated.
These criteria depend on agro-ecological zones with more complex criteria in drier areas with high rainfall variability.
A dummy variable for high altitude separates the study region into two major climate zones.
