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词汇 purlieus
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purlieus

noun
/ˈpɜːljuːz/
/ˈpɜːrluːz/
[plural] (literary)
  1. the area near or surrounding a place临近地区;周围地区
    • a fashionable residence in the purlieus of the capital首都郊区的时髦住宅
    词源late 15th cent. (denoting a tract on the border of a forest): probably an alteration (suggested by French lieu ‘place’) of Anglo-Norman French puralee ‘a going round to settle the boundaries’.
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