We leave you with the title track from Arcade Fire's new album, "The Suburbs."

VOA: special.2010.08.13

American suburbs, many of you come from them-- Hillsborough, California; Darien, Connecticut; Grosse Pointe, Michigan; places like that. That's not what the suburbs are in Europe.

美国郊区,你们大部分都是从那来的,希尔斯伯勒,加州,达连,康涅狄格州,格罗斯波恩特,密歇根州,像这种地方,欧洲的郊区可不是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

But where I went to college, it's just over the bridge in the suburbs about 30 minutes.

但我的学校就在桥对面的郊外，差不多30分钟就能到。

与圣地亚哥不一样 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Businesses started to move out to the edges of cities where suburbs were developing.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

And I'm very interested in what happened in the French suburbs two years ago; in fact, I wrote an instant article on it for an encyclopedia because some of the work I'd earlier done was about why French suburbs and European suburbs are different than American suburbs.

我对两年前,在法国郊区的事很感兴趣,其实我当时就给一个百科全书,写了一篇文章,因为我以前研究过,为什么法国和欧洲的郊区,与美国郊区有这么大的差别

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"The Suburbs" opened on Billboard's Top Two Hundred Albums at number one.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

So in the suburbs with some trees and green, I really love that.

所以我很喜欢长有树木和绿色植物的郊区。

怡人的的汉普斯特德 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It released a new album,"The Suburbs,"

VOA: special.2010.08.13

we lived in Seattle, Washington and, I've always lived in the suburbs

我们原来住在华盛顿州的西雅图市，我一直住在近郊区，

与众不同的纽约 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Firefighters have so far protected most of the homes in the suburbs near Los Angeles, but scores have been lost.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

But if you live in the suburbs north of New York City,

但如果你住在纽约北部的近郊区，

中央车站的历史 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

With demand growing,the D.C.area - including the Maryland and Virginia suburbs - has about 100 game-oriented technology firms.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

Most houses in the suburbs have big gardens.

郊区的大部分房子都有大花园。

兴趣成为了职业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

David Versaw is chief financial officer of Will Interactive, a leading game development company in the Washington suburbs.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

like Westchester County, people who live in the suburbs, right?

比如那些住在威彻斯特郡近郊的人，对吗？

中央车站的历史 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

(Speaking in French) Bonnard comes from a less privileged school district in France's tough, working class suburbs.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

Experts,such as Robert Legvold from Columbia University, say Mr.Medvedev is trying to generate interest in his plan to create a Russian Silicon Valley in the suburbs of Moscow known as the Skolkova Innovation Initiative.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18