Preguntas sobre ejemplos de oraciones con, y la definición y uso de "Outskirts"

A: 町の外の意味です。例えば千葉県は東京の郊外(outskirts)にあります。

A: It's the area that is near or just outside the borders of a town or city. When you describe something as being in the outskirts of town, it sounds like it's far away from the main population.

A: To be on the "outskirts" means to be on the fringes of something. It is often used to describe the outer parts of a city or town, which is sometimes less populated than the main part of the city.

Examples:

"My house is on the outskirts of town, so I will probably be late to the party downtown."

"Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city, so we had to wait more than an hour for help."

A: When something is convenient it typically means that you don't have to go out of you way to deal with it. It is easy and accessible. In this case, they didn't have to look too hard to find him and they didn't have to work hard to move him from that location. If he was unconscious after falling off a cliff at the top of a mountain, that would be inconvenient.

A: the edge of something
for example,
The outskirts of Australia

A: On the outskirts of town there was a run down barn and a corn field.
The suburbs were filled with white picket fences and identical houses.
The edge of the lake was nestled on the outskirts of the property next to the neighbors house.

A: In the outskirts of Los Angeles live very wealthy people.

A:
Suburbs:
are small towns outside the city,
the people who live in the suburbs often come to the city to work.

Outskirts:
refers to any area at the edge of a place.
A part remote from the center:
on the outskirts of town.

The word outskirts, which is always plural, refers to the edges of a community.
There are outskirts around a city, and these might be suburbs or they might not.
There are also outskirts around the edges of a small town.

A: not much difference, but we don't say "outskirts" much.
(for example, my son is 21 and he has probably never heard that word).

A: In Australian usage, "the outskirts" is the edges of the city, while "the suburbs" is everything that's not the Central Business District. The outskirts is just a part of the suburbs.

Usages may be different in other countries, though.

A: Suburb -- A town of its own that is next to a larger, more 'important' city.
Outskirts -- The edges of a town or city. Suburbs can be considered to be 'on the outskirts' of a city, but 'outskirts' can also mean the far-away sections of the main area.

Ex.
"I live in the suburb of Mills End, on the outskirts of Harrisburg."
"I live on the outskirts of Jamestown."

Note: Some people might say 'in' where I have said 'on'. Even native speakers don't always agree on prepositions!

A: × I think, if you live on the outskirts of a city, you can save money for rent, breathe clean air, and get easy access to nature.
✓ I think if you live on the outskirts of a city you can save money for rent, breathe clean air and get easy access to nature.

× However, if you live downtown, you can save money on transportation, and time for the commute, and you can also return home on foot when you’re drunk.
✓ However, if you live downtown you can save money on transportation, time for the commute and you can also return home on foot when you’re drunk.

There's too many commas and ands. It sounds much better when you only use "and" at the end of a paragraph and not after a comma(,).

A: Literally, 'outskirts' means 'the outer parts of a town or city.'

You can use this word for an abstract term (like femininity), to refer to something unconventional.

Here, it refers to playing with what it means to be a woman, and presenting in a way that is not 'mainstream feminine.'

A: "I live *on* the outskirts of Tokyo, two-hours *away* by car."
"I live *on* the outskirts of Tokyo, a two-hour *drive* "
"I live two-hours [*out of* / *from*] Tokyo by car."

A: I would say "she lived in the outskirts of my city" because you would live in a city, not on a city.