backyard

英 [ˌbækˈjɑːd]

美 [ˌbækˈjɑːrd]

n.  (屋后常有围墙的)后院; (包括草坪和花园的)屋后附属地带

复数：backyards　

Collins.1 / BNC.14656 / COCA.4387

习惯用语

n.

in your (own) backyard
• 在自己生活（或工作）的地方附近；在自己的后院
  in or near the place where you live or work
• The residents didn't want a new factory in their backyard.
  居民不希望在他们附近建新工厂。
• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard (= from his own members) .
  该党领导面临着党内人士的反对。

牛津词典

noun

• （屋后常有围墙的）后院
  an area with a hard surface behind a house, often surrounded by a wall
• （包括草坪和花园的）屋后附属地带
  the whole area behind and belonging to a house, including an area of grass and the garden
  1. a backyard barbecue
     后院烤肉野宴

柯林斯词典

• 后院
  Abackyardis an area of land at the back of a house.
• N-COUNT （某国的）后院（指本土或该国意欲施加影响的邻近地区）
  If you refer to a country's ownbackyard, you are referring to its own territory or to somewhere that is very close and where that country wants to influence events.
  1. Economics will not stop Europe's politicians complaining when jobs are lost in their own backyard...
     当本国人口在失业时，经济情况是无法让欧洲的政治家停止抱怨的。
  2. Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, an area that the United States has long regarded as its own backyard.
     古巴是加勒比地区最大的岛屿，美国长期以来一直把它看作自己的后院。

英英释义

noun

• the grounds in back of a house

双语例句

• The rabbits in our backyard were a magnet that attracted all the children in the neighborhood.
  我家后院的兔子像磁铁一样吸引着邻居所有的孩子。
• I freaked out when I saw the bear in my backyard.
  我在我家后院看见那只熊真把我吓了一大跳。
• Me and my mom in our backyard.
  我和妈妈在我们的后院。
• Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, an area that the United States has long regarded as its own backyard.
  古巴是加勒比地区最大的岛屿，美国长期以来一直把它看作自己的后院。
• What happened to you? Were you finger painting in the backyard?
  你怎么了？你在后院里用手刷漆吗？
• There's two dogs chained to different corners of the backyard.
  有两只狗拴在了院子的两个角上。
• But if I buried someone in my own backyard.
  要是我在自家后院埋了人。
• He had an assemblage of old junk cars filling the backyard.
  他的后院里堆满了废旧汽车。
• The two boys were camping in the backyard.
  现在几点了？两个男孩子在后院露营，他们不知道到了晚上几点钟。
• He was dumped in a backyard by a whole bunch of other people.
  他是被一群人丢在了别人家的后院。