zone
noun /zəʊn/
/zəʊn/
Idioms - an area or a region with a particular feature or use
（有某特色或作用的）地区，地带 - a war/combat/demilitarized/exclusion zone
战争/战斗/非军事/禁区 - a danger zone
危险地带 - a pedestrian zone (= where vehicles may not go)
步行区 - They have called for a 100-mile buffer zone (= protected area) around the island to protect the seals.
他们呼吁在岛屿周围划出100英里的缓冲区来保护海豹。 - an earthquake zone
地震带
- Europe is divided into economic zones.
欧洲分成多个经济区。 - Most of the old town is a traffic-free zone.
旧城大部份地区为无车区。 - Our truck was trapped in the kill zone.
我们的卡车困在了射杀区，成了活靶子。 - She stood some distance away from him to maintain a safety zone.
她站得离他有些距离，以备安全。 - The internet has become a free-fire zone for conspiracy theories.
因特网对各种阴谋论毫无限制。 - The area has been declared a closed military zone.
这个地区已被宣布为军事禁区。 - The rebels control the southern border zone.
叛乱者控制着南部边境地区。 - The region has been declared an ecological disaster zone.
这一地区已经被宣布为生态灾难区。 - This area behind the station is a no-go zone for tourists.
车站后的这一区域游客禁止进入。 - an industrial zone of factories, warehouses and shipyards
由工厂、仓库和造船厂组成的工业区 - an oxygen-depleted dead zone at the bottom of the sea
海底的无氧死区 - the neutral zone between the two countries
两国之间的中立地带 - Half a million people were made homeless throughout the earthquake zone.
整个地震区有50万人无家可归。 - The agreement provided for a security zone of 80km on both sides of the border.
该协议规定在边境两侧设立80公里的安全区。 - The main part of the city centre is a pedestrian zone.
市中心的主要部分是一个步行区。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- narrow
- wide
- marginal
- …
- control
- patrol
- create
- …
- in a/the zone
- within a/the zone
- into a/the zone
- …
- a war/combat/demilitarized/exclusion zone
- one of the areas that a larger area is divided into for the purpose of organization
（规划的）区域，分区 - postal charges to countries in zone 2
到位于第 2 邮区的国家的邮资
- All countries in zones 1 and 2 have free incoming calls.
在第1区和第2区的所有国家都可免费接听来电。 - The ticket may be used on any bus in zone 2.
这种票可在第2区内任何公共汽车上使用。
- postal charges to countries in zone 2
- an area or a part of an object, especially one that is different from everything that is around it
（尤指有别于周围的）区域，部分 - When the needle enters the red zone the engine is too hot.
当指针进入红色区域时，发动机就过热了。 - the erogenous zones of the body
身体的性敏感区
- When the needle enters the red zone the engine is too hot.
- one of the parts that the earth’s surface is divided into by imaginary lines that are parallel to the equator
（地球表面与赤道平行的）气候带 - the northern/southern temperate zone
北温带；南温带
Wordfinder- arid
- climate
- continental climate
- equatorial
- frigid
- harsh
- humidity
- rainfall
- tropical
- zone
- This species is found widely distributed throughout the northern temperate zone.
这一物种广泛分布在北温带。 - the alpine and arid zones of Australia
澳大利亚的高山和干旱地区 - The plant grows only in the temperate zone.
这种植物只生长在温带。 - the temperate and tropical zones of South America
南美洲的温带和热带 - a transition zone between tropical and arid vegetations
热带植被和干旱植被之间的过渡地区
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- narrow
- wide
- marginal
- …
- control
- patrol
- create
- …
- in a/the zone
- within a/the zone
- into a/the zone
- …
- the northern/southern temperate zone
词源late Middle English: from French, or from Latin zona ‘girdle’, from Greek zōnē.
Idioms
in the zone
- (informal) in a state in which you feel confident and are performing at your best
处于最佳状态 - When I'm in the zone, writing is the most satisfying thing in the world.
当我状态好的时候，写作是世界上最让我愉快的事。
- When I'm in the zone, writing is the most satisfying thing in the world.
a/the twilight world (of something) | the twilight zone
- a state in which things are strange, mysterious or secret; a state that exists on the dividing line between two things
区域： 事物处于奇怪，神秘或秘密状态的状态；在两件事之间的分界线上存在的状态- the twilight world of the occult
魔法的虚幻世界 - The dissidents lived in a twilight world of hushed voices and secret meetings.
持不同政见者生活在一个沉默的声音和秘密会议的朦胧世界里。 - the twilight zone between living and merely existing
生活和生存之间的模糊地带 - They lived in the twilight zone on the fringes of society.
他们生活在社会边缘光怪陆离之处。
- the twilight world of the occult