Many of the new parents moved to homes in the new suburbs built outside the urban environment of cities.

VOA: special.2011.07.21

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

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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，

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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

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

VOA: standard.2010.04.20