英 [ta?n] 美 [ta?n]
n.城鎮，市鎮;小村莊;城鎮居民;商業中心
復數： towns
1.N-COUNT 鎮;市鎮；城鎮 A town is a place with many streets and buildings, where people live and work. Towns are larger than villages and smaller than cities. Many places that are called towns in Britain would be called cities in the United States.
Saturday night in the small town of Braintree, Essex.
埃塞克斯郡布倫特裏小鎮的周六之夜。
You can use the town to refer to the people of a town.
The town takes immense pride in recent achievements.
全鎮人對近來取得的成就都感到非常自豪。
2.N-UNCOUNT 自己居住的城鎮 You use town in order to refer to the town where you live.
He admits he doesn't even know when his brother is in town...
他承認自己甚至不知道弟弟什麽時候來了本市。
3.N-UNCOUNT 市中心;(城鎮的)商業中心；鬧市區 You use town in order to refer to the central area of a town where most of the shops and offices are.
I walked around town.
我在市中心逛了逛。
4.N-SING (與農村相對的)城市，都會 If you refer to the town, you are referring to town and city areas in general, as opposed to country areas.
More people are going to want to escape from the town into the country.
更多的人將會想要逃離城市到鄉村去。
5.PHRASE 滿腔熱情地幹;拼命地幹 If you say that someone goes to town on something, you mean that they deal with it with a lot of enthusiasm or intensity.
We really went to town on it, turning it into a full, three-day show.
我們下了真功夫，把它辦成了壹場內容豐富、為時三天的展覽。
6.PHRASE 社交忙人;花花公子/時髦女郎 If you describe someone as a man about town or a woman about town, you mean that they are sophisticated, like to go out and spend money, and have a busy social life.
He was known as a tall, handsome man about town.
他以高大英俊的花花公子形象為人所知。
7.PHRASE (夜晚)在鬧市區玩樂 If you go out on the town or go for a night on the town, you enjoy yourself by going to a town centre in the evening and spending a long time there visiting several places of entertainment.
My idea of luxury used to be going out on the town and coming back in the early hours of the morning.
我過去對奢侈的概念是夜晚在鬧市通宵玩樂到清晨才回來。