in the suburbs

基本解释

About half of black Americans now live in the suburbs, up from 43% in 2000.
如今近一半的美国黑人都居住在郊区，较2000 年的43% 有所增加。
That night, we stayed at a hotel in the suburbs called the Dream Castle. It had coats of arms in the lobby and a giant statue of a king in flowing robes.
这天晚上我们住在郊外一家名为梦幻城堡的酒店里，在酒店的大堂里挂有军装做装饰，还有一位穿着飘动战袍的国王雕像。
Class-four restaurants are the last oases of natural companionship, and they tend to be in the suburbs rather than in the city; these are the places one remembers in prison.
那些四类餐馆是人们仍会出自本性而凑在一起的最后的绿洲，这些餐馆通常在郊外，不在城市里；这些是一个人在监狱里面会想起的地方。

Firefighters have so far protected most of the homes in the suburbs near Los Angeles, but scores have been lost.
But where I went to college, it's just over the bridge in the suburbs about 30 minutes.
但我的学校就在桥对面的郊外，差不多30分钟就能到。
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American suburbs, many of you come from them-- Hillsborough, California; Darien, Connecticut; Grosse Pointe, Michigan; places like that. That's not what the suburbs are in Europe.
美国郊区,你们大部分都是从那来的,希尔斯伯勒,加州,达连,康涅狄格州,格罗斯波恩特,密歇根州,像这种地方,欧洲的郊区可不是这样
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What about people in the suburbs slipping into poverty who were not previously there?
NPR: Poverty, Still Coming To A Suburb Near You