crosstown

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Extending across a city or town. US,not-comparable
  2. Connecting different areas of a city or town without passing through downtown. not-comparable
    — 1968 Simon and Garfunkel - "At the Zoo" on "Bookends" But you can take the crosstown bus / If it's raining or it's cold, / And the animals will love it / If you do.
  3. Situated at the other end of town. not-comparable
    — The football team beat our crosstown rivals last night.
副词 adv.
  1. To the other side of a city or town. not-comparable
    — In 1979, what was to become PBG started as a rap group for Blacks that met regularly at the Gay Community Center, then housed in a modest building just off the artsy-craftsy South Street. […] The white man who ran the center gave the Black group increasingly smaller rooms in which to meet. […] When they gave the group a broom closet, the Blacks moved crosstown to the Friends Center; and PBG, Inc. was born.

词形变化

cross-town alternative cross-town alternative

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English cross-
English town
English crosstown
From cross- + town.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English cross-
English town
English crosstown
From cross- + town.
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