Old English tunscipe "inhabitants or population of a town;" see town + -ship. Applied in Middle English to "manor, parish, or other division of a hundred." Specific sense of "local division or district in a parish, each with a village or small town and its own church" is from 1530s; as a local municipal division of a county in U.S. and Canada, first recorded 1685. In South Africa, "area set aside for non-whites" from 1934.
实用例句
1. Once again there's been ferocious blood-letting in the township.
镇区再次发生了残忍的流血事件。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Quite a few women become leaders at different levels in township enterprises.
在乡镇企业中,不少女性担任了企业领导职务.
来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
3. To accomplish this result it was only necessary to invent a township.
要达到这个目的,所需要的就是创立乡区.
来自辞典例句
4. Fall asleep, dream Township who insisted on boat Artemisia?
睡着了, 梦里水乡是谁撑着船蒿?
来自互联网
5. County county, township and village roads extending in all directions, criss - crossing.
