​词汇辨析：area、region、district、zone

词汇辨析：area、region、district、zone

本期介绍英语中和“地区”有关的4个词汇，其常见的搭配以及地道的表达。

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area

释义：普遍意义上的地区，没有明确界限，通常不指行政单位。

例句：

More sparsely populated Republican areas have seen only scattered tragedies, typically in care homes, where almost a quarter of Texas’s 391 deaths have occurred.

在人口稀少的共和党地区，只有零星的几处悲剧，通常发生在养老院中。德克萨斯州有391个死亡案例，将近四分之一发生在养老院。

region

释义：世界或国家的一部分，面积较大，在地理上有天然界限或地域特色的单位或指行政单位。

例句：

Pointing to a chart showing a flattened curve, Suzuki Naomichi, governor of Hokkaido, announced on March 18th that the region had contained its coronavirus outbreak and could therefore lift its three-week-old state of emergency.

3月18日，北海道知事铃木直道指着图表中趋于平坦的曲线宣布，该地区的新冠疫情得到了控制，可以解除为期三周的紧急状态。

district

释义：出于行政、司法、教育等目的而划分的地区。

例句：

Texas is America’s biggest producer of carbon emissions. So it is perhaps unsurprising that its governor, Greg Abbott, has been skeptical that humankind has much to do with global warming. Plenty of Republican politicians, such as Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, show that it is entirely possible to be an enthusiastic proponent of green energy in your district while still denying that climate change overall requires any national policy response.

德克萨斯州是美国最大的碳排放州。因此，州长格雷格·阿伯特（Greg Abbott）对于人类与全球变暖息息相关的看法提出质疑的行为，也就不足为奇了。爱荷华州参议员查克·格拉斯利（Chuck Grassley）与许多共和党政客都证明了，一个人完全可以在所在地区成为绿色能源的热心拥护者，同时否认气候变化需要国家层面的政策响应。

zone

释义：为了服务某种用途而划分的地区，具备独特的特征，有严格的边界。

例句：

Instead of a recovery, the financial crisis morphed into the euro-zone crisis, with renewed pain for Europe’s youngsters. Unemployment shot up. Four out of every ten young Italians did not have a job in the middle of the last decade, while half of young workers in Spain were in the same boat.

金融危机并没有恢复，而是演变成了欧元区的危机，给欧洲年轻人造成了新的痛苦。失业率上升。在过去的十年里，25%的意大利年轻人没有工作，西班牙则有一半的年轻人失业。