rural

adj.

1. 乡村的；农村的；似农村的
   connected with or like the countryside
   1. rural areas
      农村地区
   2. a rural economy
      农村经济
   3. rural America
      美国乡村
   4. a rural way of life
      乡村的生活方式

1. ADJ-GRADED 乡下的;乡村的;农村的
   Rural places are far away from large towns or cities.
   1. These plants have a tendency to grow in the more rural areas.
      这些植物大多生长在偏远的乡村。
   2. ...the closure of rural schools.
      农村学校的关闭
2. ADJ-GRADED 有乡村特色的;田园的;有乡土气息的
   Rural means having features which are typical of areas that are far away from large towns or cities.
   1. ...the old rural way of life...
      昔日的田园生活
   2. He spoke with a heavy rural accent.
      他说话带着浓重的农村口音。

1. Japan has advanced from a rural, feudal society to an urban, industrial power.
   日本已从封建农业社会发展成一个城市化工业强国。
2. Meanwhile, United Nations plans to start air dropping food to rural villages are being held up.
   与此同时，联合国向乡村空投食物的计划被搁置。
3. 60 years ago half the French population still lived in rural areas.
   60年前有一半法国人仍然生活在乡村地区。
4. Published in association with the Council for the Protection of Rural England, the book provides refreshing solutions to the long-term problem of water conservation.
   这本书与英格兰乡村保护委员会合作出版，就节约水资源这个长期问题提供了全新的解决方法。
5. The rural people have been impoverished by a collapsing economy.
   经济崩溃使农村地区的人们一贫如洗。
6. School crime and violence cuts across urban, rural and suburban areas.
   城市、乡村和郊区都出现了校园犯罪和校园暴力现象。
7. Congress has tried dozens of approaches to revitalize decaying urban and rural areas.
   国会已试行过数十种方法来重振正在走向衰败的城乡地区。
8. As rural factories shed labour, people drift towards the cities.
   由于农村的工厂纷纷裁员，人们逐渐流向城市。
9. Consort has a population of 714 and is about as rural and isolated as you can get.
   康索特有714名居民，是极其偏僻的乡村地区。
10. For many, the essence of French living is to be found in the rural heartlands.
    对很多人来说，深入乡村腹地才能体验到真正的法国生活。
11. Husbanding precious resources was part of rural life.
    节约地使用宝贵的资源是乡村生活的一部分。
12. She finds that the sleepy town she moves to isn't the rural idyll she imagined
    她发现她搬进的这个寂静小镇并非她想象中的乡间田园。
13. They announced the initiation of a rural development programme
    他们宣布启动一项农村发展计划。
14. A rural single railway track meanders through the valley
    一条乡间的单轨铁路从山谷间曲折地穿过。
15. Much of his early work is concerned with the minutiae of rural life.
    他早期的许多作品关注的是农村生活中一些鸡毛蒜皮的琐事。
16. Growing numbers of people in the rural areas are too frightened to vote.
    越来越多生活在乡下的人被吓得不敢投票了。
17. In France patois was spoken in rural, less developed regions.
    在法国，欠发达的农村地区说方言。
18. The landscape has remained predominantly rural in appearance.
    这里的风景看上去还是以田园风光为主。
19. This is early-20th-century rural Sussex, when horses still pulled the plough
    这是20世纪早期的萨塞克斯乡村，那时还是用马拉犁。
20. He has a romantic view of rural society
    他对农村的看法不切实际。
21. These plants have a tendency to grow in the more rural areas.
    这些植物大多生长在偏远的乡村。
22. He spoke with a heavy rural accent.
    他说话带着浓重的农村口音。
23. Rural communities are widely separated and often small
    乡村村落彼此离得很远，而且通常规模很小。
24. The rebels came overwhelmingly from the poorest strata of rural society.
    叛乱分子绝大多数来自农村的最贫困阶层。
25. The recycling scheme gets its first try-out in rural Dorset.
    这些再循环方案在多塞特郡的农村地区首先试用。
26. In the Balearics pockets of rural life and inland villages are undisturbed
    在巴利阿里群岛上，零星散布在岛内的村庄和那里的生活平静而祥和。
27. He has caught the zeitgeist of rural life in the 1980s very well indeed.
    事实上，他非常准确地描绘出了20世纪80年代乡村生活的真实风貌。
28. These works have a strong flavour of rural life.
    这些作品具有浓郁的农村生活气息。
29. All the rural workers have been assigned to the forefront of production in their enterprises.
    所有农村工人都被分到企业的生产第一线。
30. The household contract responsibility system does not mean privatization of the rural economy.
    家庭联产承包制并不意味着农村经济私有化。

adj

1. living in or characteristic of farming or country life
   1. rural people
   2. large rural households
   3. unpaved rural roads
   4. an economy that is basically rural

2. of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city
   1. rural electrification
   2. rural free delivery