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。
• Although geographically linked, the two provinces have long fought for political ascendancy
  尽管在地理上彼此依存，两省却长期为获取政治支配权你争我夺。
• The four provinces are riven by deep family and tribal conflicts
  这4个省被严重的家族和部族纷争弄得四分五裂。
• United Canada was divided into the provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
  联合加拿大被划分为安大略省和魁北克省。
• 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。
• The league has branches in each of the ten provinces and three territories.
  联盟在每十个省和三领土有分支。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Cases have now been reported from five provinces.
  病例报告目前来自五个省。