vicinity: [16] Latin vīcus meant ‘group of houses, village’ (it is related to the -wich or -wick of English place-names, which originally meant ‘hamlet, town’). From it was derived vīcīnus ‘neighbouring’, which in turn produced vīcīnitās ‘neighbourhood’, source of English vicinity.
vicinity (n.)
1550s, "nearness in place," from Middle French vicinité and directly from Latin vicinitas "of or pertaining to neighbors or a neighborhood," as a noun, "neighborhood, nearness, proximity," from vicinus (adj.) "of the neighborhood, near, neighboring," as a noun "the neighborhood, a neighbor," from vicus "group of houses, village," related to the -wick, -wich in English place names, from PIE *weik- (1) "clan, social unit above the household" (see villa). Meaning "neighborhood, surrounding district" in English is attested by 1796.
双语例句
1. Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity.
仅有几个人回到临近地区工作。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Crowds gathered in the vicinity of Trafalgar Square.
成群结队的人聚集在特拉法尔加广场周围。
来自《权威词典》
3. He told us there was no hotel in the vicinity.
他告诉我们说附近没有旅馆.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. There's a factory in the vicinity of the school.
学校邻近有个工厂.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5. There are green and lush vegetable plots [ beds ] in our vicinity.
