provinces

英 [ˈprɒvɪnsɪz]

美 [ˈprɑvənsəz]

n.  省份; (某些国家的)一级行政区; 首都以外的地区; 知识(或兴趣、职责)范围; 领域
province的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 省
  Aprovinceis a large section of a country which has its own administration.
  1. ...the Algarve, Portugal's southernmost province.
     阿尔加维， 葡萄牙最南部的省份
• N-PLURAL 外省（首都以外的地区）
  The provincesare all the parts of a country except the part where the capital is situated.
  1. The government plans to transfer some 30,000 government jobs from Paris to the provinces.
     政府计划将3万个左右的政府职位从巴黎转移到外省。
• N-SING （兴趣、知识、责任的）范围，领域
  If you say that a subject or activity is a particular person'sprovince, you mean that this person has a special interest in it, a special knowledge of it, or a special responsibility for it.
  1. Arvo avoided committing himself. 'I'm afraid that's not my province,' he replied...
     阿尔沃不想作出承诺，“恐怕那不归我管，”他回答说。
  2. Industrial research is the province of the Department of Trade and Industry.
     工业研究属贸易和工业部的职责范围。

双语例句

• It can be one city, several provinces or the whole country.
  可以是一个城市、几个省，或者整个国家。
• Liaoning is one of China's provinces.
  辽宁是中国的一个省份。
• Arrests were made in the southern Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi later that year.
  同年晚些时候，中国警方在南部省份云南和广西逮捕了假药制造和销售者。
• The railway will benefit several provinces.
  这条铁路有益于几个省。
• Several other provinces and regions, including Yunnan, Jiangsu and Xinjiang, have introduced similar rules.
  其他省份和地区，象云南，江苏，新疆等地也实施了类似的规章制度。
• The newly-built road opened the way to the economic intercourse between the two provinces.
  新修的这条公路为两省的经济交流打开了方便之门。
• The Yi nationality is distributed mainly over Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces.
  彝族主要分布在云南、四川和贵州三省。
• I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom to have that photograph.
  我可以告诉你，为了得到那张照片，我愿意拿我领土中的一个省来交换。
• Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou are three provinces in Southwestern China.
  四川、云南和贵州是中国西南部的三个省份。
• The cases have been reported from four provinces: Anhui, Hunan, Guangxi, and Liaoning.
  这些病例是4个省报告的：安徽、湖南、广西和辽宁。