vicinity: [16] Latin vīcus meant ‘group of houses, village’ (it is related to the -wich or -wick of English place-names, which originally meant ‘hamlet, town’). From it was derived vīcīnus ‘neighbouring’, which in turn produced vīcīnitās ‘neighbourhood’, source of English vicinity.
vicinity (n.)
1550s, "nearness in place," from Middle French vicinité and directly from Latin vicinitas "of or pertaining to neighbors or a neighborhood," as a noun, "neighborhood, nearness, proximity," from vicinus (adj.) "of the neighborhood, near, neighboring," as a noun "the neighborhood, a neighbor," from vicus "group of houses, village," related to the -wick, -wich in English place names, from PIE *weik- (1) "clan, social unit above the household" (see villa). Meaning "neighborhood, surrounding district" in English is attested by 1796.
雙語例句
1. Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity.
僅有幾個(gè)人回到臨近地區(qū)工作。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Crowds gathered in the vicinity of Trafalgar Square.
成群結(jié)隊(duì)的人聚集在特拉法爾加廣場周圍。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
3. He told us there was no hotel in the vicinity.
他告訴我們說附近沒有旅館.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. There's a factory in the vicinity of the school.
學(xué)校鄰近有個(gè)工廠.
來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
5. There are green and lush vegetable plots [ beds ] in our vicinity.