rural

英['r??r(?)l] 美['r?r?l]

反義詞urban

rural 鄉村的，農村的

來自拉丁語 ruralis,鄉村的，來自 rus,開闊地，鄉村，來自 PIE*reue,展開，詞源同 room,rustic.

rural: rural: [15] Latin rūs denoted ‘the country’ (it came ultimately from an Indo-European ancestor meaning ‘open space’, which also produced English room). Its stem form was rūr-, on which was based the adjective rūrālis, source of English rural. A related adjective, this time derived from the nominative form, was rūsticus, which has given English rustic [15], and is also the ultimate source (via Old French rustre ‘ruffian’) of English roister [16].
=> roister, room, rustic
rural (adj.): early 15c., from Old French rural (14c.), from Latin ruralis "of the countryside," from rus (genitive ruris) "open land, country," from PIE *reue- (1) "to open; space" (see room (n.)).
In early examples, there is usually little or no difference between the meanings of rural and rustic, but in later use the tendency is to employ rural when the idea of locality (country scenes, etc.) is prominent, and rustic when there is a suggestion of the more primitive qualities or manners naturally attaching to country life. [OED]
Related: Rurally.

2. Desegregation may be harder to enforce in rural areas.: 要廢除農村地區的種族隔離可能會更困難一些。

3. They announced the initiation of a rural development programme.: 他們宣布啟動一項農村發展計劃。

4. The rebels came overwhelmingly from the poorest strata of rural society.: 叛亂分子絕大多數來自農村的最貧困階層。

5. The rural people have been impoverished by a collapsing economy.: 經濟崩潰使農村地區的人們一貧如洗。