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 vicinity [vi'siniti]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 附近, 邻近, 附近地区, 近处

[法] 附近, 邻近, 附近地区




    vicinity
    [ noun ]
    a surrounding or nearby region
    <noun.location>
    the plane crashed in the vicinity of Ashevilleit is a rugged locality
    he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
    I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods


    Vicinity \Vi*cin"i*ty\ (v[i^]*s[i^]n"[i^]*t[y^]; 277), n. [L.
    vicinitas, from vicinus neighboring, near, from vicus a row
    of houses, a village; akin to Gr. o'i^kos a house, Skr.
    v[=e][,c]a a house, vi[,c] to enter, Goth. weihs town: cf.
    OF. vicinit['e]. Cf. {Diocese}, {Economy}, {Parish},
    {Vicinage}, {Wick} a village.]
    1. The quality or state of being near, or not remote;
    nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value of the
    estate was increased by the vicinity of two country seats.

    A vicinity of disposition and relative tempers.
    --Jer. Taylor.

    2. That which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent
    to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood.
    ``The vicinity of the sun.'' --Bentley.

    Syn: Neighborhood; vicinage. See {Neighborhood}.

    1. William Feathergail Wilson, Placid's exploration vice president, told the Hunts of an ancient Mississippi River 50 miles wide and 200 feet deep, which buried a treasure of oil-forming debris in the vicinity of Green Canyon.
    2. Other workers were rescued in the same vicinity Thursday night, he said.
    3. Authorities closed the two roads in the vicinity of the wreck and evacuated nearby residents.
    4. A three-mile section of a Forest Service road was closed as officials expressed concern for the safety of mountain bikers who had been seen in the vicinity, Cottrell said.
    5. Two sensitive nesting areas in the vicinity, Pralls Island and Shooters Island, had booms placed around them Thursday.
    6. Recent internal polls for Bush and the Republican Party show a similarly wide deficit _ in the vicinity of 20 points _ in support among women voters, according to GOP sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.
    7. The executives, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they received the information from ships in the vicinity.
    8. Police said the procession was illegal because demonstrations are not permitted in the vicinity of th Presidential Office Building.
    9. Defense Attorney Dick Madson argued that the marking of one year since the nation's largest oil spill last March 24 will bring a flood of publicity and possible demonstrations in the vicinity of the Anchorage courthouse.
    10. News of the accident was broadcast on local radio and television in the city. The official said the plant director had given an assurance there was no danger to people living in the immediate vicinity or in the city of Zaporizhia.
    11. One person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said he was near the site, heard a loud explosion and later saw a cloud in the vicinity of the Cultural Center.
    12. Alyeska made no serious effort at containment even though for three days after the accident the weather kept most of the crude in the vicinity of the Valdez.
    13. The T-CAS system, installed in the cockpit, alerts a pilot if there is another aircraft in the vicinity and on a potential collision course.
    14. An estimated 7 million of South Africa's 26 million blacks are shack-dwelling squatters, but the Conservative Party says they will have to be removed from the vicinity of "white" cities.
    15. Freight shipping in the area is also heavy because of its vicinity to the ports of Delfzijl in the Netherlands and Emden in West Germany.
    16. Cobb said the Soviet vessel, Irtyshsk, remained in the vicinity of the collision and was unloading some of its diesel fuel to another Soviet fishing boat.
    17. The crews of the guided missile cruiser USS Fox and the destroyer tender USS Acadia assisted in firefighting earlier in the day because they were in the vicinity when the first fire broke out, Pritchard said.
    18. The military, however, admitted shots were fired while the monarch's craft was in the vicinity but said the shots were aimed in another direction and were part of a routine weapons check.
    19. Among the findings: _52 percent of the children killed were not in the vicinity of a protest when they were fatally injured.
    20. After flying to the vicinity of an enemy submarine, the missile would release a torpedo which would float by parachute to the ocean's surface and then hunt down the sub.
    21. HUD officials said Rainier View must conduct a study of housing in the vicinity to support its bid for higher rents.
    22. They withdrew and we later deployed in the port vicinity," the source said.
    23. And reporters permitted to travel in the vicinity, while they were shown some of the military exercises, weren't allowed to see the scores of tanks and artillery pieces that have been sent to the southeast by ship, train and truck.
    24. Authorities said they spotted another escapee in the same vicinity, but lost him after a short chase.
    25. An earthquake of 3.5 to 4 on the Richter scale could break dishes in the immediate vicinity of the epicenter.
    26. She was transferred to the Royal Viking Star, a cruise ship in the vicinity, for treatment by the ship's doctor, according to Capt.
    27. According to Pretoria no test occurred and no radioactive fallout was recorded in the vicinity.
    28. Residents in the fire vicinity complained bitterly that the park, tourism and the very air they breathed were being ruined by the failure to control the fires.
    29. Mr. Kinlaw's company has drilled 20 horizontal wells in the vicinity.
    30. The military-type signals were sent from an F-14 that was flying in extremely close vicinity to the Airbus.
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