backyards
英 [ˌbækˈjɑːdz]
美 [ˈbæˌkjɑrdz]
n. (屋后常有围墙的)后院; (包括草坪和花园的)屋后附属地带
backyard的复数
柯林斯词典
- 后院
A backyard is an area of land at the back of a house. - N-COUNT （某国的）后院（指本土或该国意欲施加影响的邻近地区）
If you refer to a country's own backyard, you are referring to its own territory or to somewhere that is very close and where that country wants to influence events.- Economics will not stop Europe's politicians complaining when jobs are lost in their own backyard...
当本国人口在失业时，经济情况是无法让欧洲的政治家停止抱怨的。 - Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, an area that the United States has long regarded as its own backyard.
古巴是加勒比地区最大的岛屿，美国长期以来一直把它看作自己的后院。
- Economics will not stop Europe's politicians complaining when jobs are lost in their own backyard...
双语例句
- As power generation moves towards cleaner and smarter sources, small-scale photovoltaic panel arrays are springing up on roofs and in backyards.
由于发电技术目前正向使用更清洁、更智能的原料的方向发展，因此小规模的光电板阵列如雨后春笋般涌现。 - This weekend, as we celebrate Memorial Day, families across America will gather in backyards and front porches, fire up the barbeque, kick back with friends, and spend time with people they care about.
这个周末，是阵亡将士纪念日，美国各地的家庭会在后院和前廊聚会，点燃篝火烧烤，与朋友一起放松，和心爱的人一起共渡美好时光。这都是应该的。 - The Fourth of July is traditionally a day of togetherness, when Americans gather with family, friends and neighbors in homes and in parks, in backyards and in public squares.
七月四日传统上是一个团聚的日子。在这一天，美国人或在家里，或在公园，或在自家后院，或在广场，与家人、朋友或邻居在一起聚会。 - India and China, which fought a brief 1962 war over their Himalayan border, have in recent years grown increasingly suspicious of the others 'activities in waters they consider their own strategic backyards.
印度与中国曾在1962年因喜马拉雅地区边界问题发生过短暂军事冲突，两国近些年则互相对对方在自身视为战略后方的水域的活动愈发感到怀疑。 - Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington – it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston.
我们的竞选活动并非诞生于华盛顿的高门华第之内，而是始于得梅因、康科德、查尔斯顿这些地方的普通民众家中。 - But countless other acts of self-destruction and unthinkable acts of cruelty take place, unbeknownst to us, in our own backyards: the successful eye surgeon who gambles his kids'college tuition away;
但是另有数不清其它自我毁灭式行为、不可想像残忍行为在不为我们所知的情况自己身边发生着：成功的眼科医生将自己孩子大学学费赌光； - Successful exporters not only benefit from increased revenues, they also become more competitive in their own backyards.
成功的出口商不仅利润增加，在国内的竞争力也越强。 - Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington mdash; it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston.
我们的竞选并非始于华盛顿的华丽大厅，而是起于德莫奈地区某家的后院、康科德地区的某家客厅、查尔斯顿地区的某家前廊。 - I sat with his wife in their living room, looking out the glass doors to the backyards, and there was Allen's pool, still covered with black plastic that had been stretched across it for winter.
我跟他妻子一起坐在他们家的起居室里，望着玻璃门外的后院。后院里有阿伦的游泳池，上面还盖着过冬时铺上去的黑色塑料蓬。 - Instead, both operators got big in their own backyards.
相反，两家运营商都致力于在自己的后院发展壮大。 - "Twenty to30 years ago we urged people to raise chickens in their backyards but now the paradigm has changed and we have to change the culture and it is not an easy task," he said.
“20到30年前我们强烈要求居民把他们的鸡养在自家的后院中，但是现在我们要改变这个范例了，所以我们必须改变文化，但是这却不是一件容易的工作，”他说。 - In our town, people took the trash from their houses out to large barrels in the alleys behind their backyards.
在我们这个小镇，人们把垃圾从家中拿出来，放到后院外小巷的大垃圾桶里。 - I had time for a spy's glimpse into backyards – a view of cherished private plots and straggling geese – before we jolted to a halt.
在我们的列车摇晃着停下来之前，我还来得及迅速瞥一眼居民的后院&看到的是妥善照料的自耕地和乱窜的鹅。 - To their American neighbors, they are anywhere between eccentric and insane, folks who are more obsessed with vegetables in their backyards than with weeds in their lawns.
而对于他们的美国邻居来说，这些华裔夫妇却是介于怪人和疯子之间的人，他们对在后院种菜的兴趣远远超过了给草坪除草。 - Who knew that an investigation into that patch of grass in our backyards could be so fruitful-and so funny?
谁知道其实观察后院的草坪也能够收获颇丰并且其乐无穷？ - Many of the bird species that breed in the temperate forests, marshes and backyards of North America spend the winter months in the tropics of the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
许多在北美温带的森林、沼泽、草地等地区繁殖的鸟类，在冬季会飞去热带的加勒比海地区或者美国的中部、南部过冬。 - It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston.
它是在得梅因的后院，康科德的起居室里和查尔斯顿的门廊下组建的。 - The only signs of life were fogged windows and smoking chimneys, the only dabs of colour were bright gold ears of corn stored for the winter in backyards.
唯一的生命迹象，就是雾蒙蒙的窗户和冒着烟的烟囱，唯一的几抹色彩，就是储存在后院用以过冬的玉米那些金黄色的玉米穗。 - Within the next few years, many forest researchers believe, companies will be totally revamping arboreal genomes, creating wholly new kinds of trees short, fat, almost branchiess that will look nothing like the pines and birches in suburban backyards.
许多森林研究人员相信在未来的几年内，林业公司会完全改变乔木的基因组，创造出全新的树种一矮小、硕、枝一和郊区场院里看到的松树及桦树毫无相似之处。 - The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted.
他们后院的饲养站已经没有鸟儿光顾了。 - Or what is presently taking place in the former Soviet Union and in other countries eager to relocate noxious materials from their immediate backyards?
又有谁知道前苏联各国，以及其它同样急于将自己制造的有毒物质迁出自家后院的国家又在对哪片海洋打着主意？ - Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington-it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston.
我们的竞选之程并不是在华盛顿的豪华大厅里策划出来的，而是始于小城市得梅因的后院里，始于康科德和查尔斯顿这些小地方的起居室里、前门走廊上。 - The new strategy often means the farmers are crammed into apartments with no backyards to raise chickens or store tools, and they face a longer journey to their fields.
新的战略常常意味着农民们要被塞进公寓楼，而这些公寓是没有后院可以给他们饲养牲畜或存放农具的，他们也要走更远的路去农田。 - Emerging-market champions have not only proved highly competitive in their own backyards, they are also going global themselves.
新兴市场的冠军们不仅证明了自己在国内和周边市场具有相当的竞争力，同时也正走向全球。 - Strange but true: the trees in American backyards may be worth far more than the cars in the front drive, at least in theory.
看上去有些奇怪，但确属事实：美国人后院的树可能远比房前车道的车值钱，至少理论上如此。