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单词 provincial
释义
provincial1 adjectiveprovincial2 noun
provincialpro‧vin‧cial1 /prəˈvɪnʃəl/ ●○○ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • the provincial government of Quebec
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • All things considered, the provincial circuit presents a hell of a challenge.
  • In Britain, the old tradition of private patronage in the great provincial cities is reviving - but not fast enough.
  • It constituted an even clearer expression of provincial mobilisation and disregard for parliamentary initiative and manoeuvre than 1833.
  • It was a tentative document that merely asked for provincial legislation enabling municipalities to buy, sell, and distribute electric power.
  • The provincial groups with papers in two or three towns were little different from the other independents.
  • The reforms were supported by President Carlos Saúl Menem, the other provincial governors and congressional deputies and senators.
  • The whole thing struck one as being very provincial.
  • This provided for the election by all landowners over the age of twenty-five of representatives to local and provincial assemblies.
word sets
WORD SETS
abyss, nounalluvial, adjectivealluvium, nounalpine, adjectiveAmerican, adjectiveAntarctica, anticyclone, nounarchipelago, nounArctic, adjectivearid, adjectiveAsia, atlas, nounatoll, nounAustralasia, Australasian, adjectiveAustralia, avalanche, nounaxis, nounbank, nounbarometer, nounbarrier reef, nounbasin, nounbay, nounbayou, nounbeach, nounbearing, nounbed, nounbight, nounbluff, nounborder, nounborder, verbborderland, nounborderline, nounborough, nounbox canyon, nounBritish, adjectivebutte, nouncanyon, nouncape, nouncapital, nouncardinal point, nounCaribbean, adjectivecartography, nouncay, nounchain, nounchaparral, nounchart, nounchasm, nounchimney, nounChinese, adjectivecirrus, nounCIS, nouncliff, nounclimate, nounclimatic, adjectivecoastal, adjectivecoastline, nouncockney, nouncol, nouncold front, nouncommuter belt, nouncompass, nounconfluence, nouncontinent, nouncontinental, adjectivecontinental shelf, nouncontour, nounconurbation, nouncoordinate, nouncorridor, nouncorrie, nouncoterminous, adjectivecouncil estate, nouncountry, nouncounty, nouncounty town, nouncourse, nouncove, nouncrag, nouncraggy, adjectivecreek, nouncrevasse, nouncrevice, nouncumulus, nouncyclone, noundateline, noundelta, noundesert, noundesert island, noundevelopment, noundistrict, noundivide, noundown, adverbdune, noundust bowl, nouneast, nouneast, adjectiveeast, adverbeastbound, adjectiveeasterly, adjectiveeasterly, nouneastern, adjectiveEasterner, nouneasternmost, adjectiveeastwards, adverbelevation, nouneminence, nounenvirons, nounequatorial, adjectiveerode, verberosion, nounescarpment, nounestuary, nounEurope, nounextraterritorial, adjectiveeyot, nounface, nounfarmland, nounfeeder, nounfiord, nounfirth, nounfjord, nounflood plain, nounfluvial, adjectivefrontier, nounfrontiersman, noungale force, adjectivegap, noungeo-, prefixgeography, noungeophysics, noungeopolitics, noungeyser, nounglacial, adjectiveglaciation, nounglacier, nounglobe, noungoldfield, noungorge, noungrassland, nounGrecian, adjectivegreen belt, noungrid, noungrotto, noungroundwater, noungulch, noungulf, noungully, nounhead, nounheadland, nounheadwaters, nounheartland, nounhemisphere, nounhighland, adjectivehighlands, nounhigh water mark, nounhinterland, nounHome Counties, the, homeland, nounhurricane, noun-i, suffixIberian, adjectiveiceberg, nounice cap, nounice floe, nounice pack, nounice sheet, nouninhabitant, nouninland, adjectiveinland, adverbinlet, nouninner city, nouninshore, adverbinsular, adjectiveintercontinental, adjectiveInternational Date Line, nounisland, nounisle, nounislet, nounisobar, nounIsraeli, adjectiveIsraeli, nounisthmus, nounItalian, adjectiveItalianate, adjectiveItalo-, prefixJapanese, adjectivekey, nounknoll, nounlagoon, nounlake, nounlandlocked, adjectivelandmass, nounlandslide, nounlandslip, nounlat., Latin, adjectiveLatin America, nounLatin American, adjectivelatitude, nounlevee, nounlittoral, nounlong., longitude, nounlongitudinal, adjectivelough, nounlowlands, nounlow-lying, adjectivelow water mark, nounmagnetic north, nounmagnetic pole, nounmarsh, nounmarshland, nounmeander, verbMediterranean, adjectiveMercator projection, nounmeridian, nounmesa, nounMiddle America, nounmidtown, adjectivemonsoon, nounmoorland, nounmorass, nounmountain, nounmountainside, nounmountaintop, nounmouth, nounmudslide, nounmull, nounnarrows, nounnavigation, nounNE, neck, nounnor'-, prefixnorth, nounnorth, adjectivenorth, adverbNorth America, nounnortheast, nounnortheast, adjectivenortheasterly, adjectivenortheastern, adjectivenortheastwards, adverbnortherly, adjectivenorthern, adjectivenortherner, nounnorthernmost, adjectivenorthwards, adverbnorthwest, nounnorthwest, adjectivenorthwesterly, adjectivenorthwestern, adjectivenorthwestwards, adverbnotch, nounNW, NZ, oasis, nounoccidental, nounocean, nounonshore, adjectiveopenness, nounOrdnance Survey map, nounoriental, adjectiveoutcrop, nounoverspill, nounpack ice, nounpaddy, nounpalisade, nounpan-, prefixpanhandle, nounparallel, nounpeak, nounpeninsula, nounPersian, adjectivephysical geography, nounplain, nounplateau, nounpoint, nounpolar, adjectivepole, nounpolitical geography, nounpollutant, nounpop., populate, verbpopulation, nounprairie, nounprecipice, nounprecipitation, nounPrime Meridian, principality, nounprojection, nounpromontory, nounprovince, nounprovincial, adjectivepueblo, nounR, rainfall, nounrain forest, nounrain gauge, nounrainstorm, nounrange, nounravine, nounreef, nounreference, nounregion, nounregional, adjectiverelief map, nounreservoir, nounresettle, verbresidential, adjectiveresource, nounridge, nounrift valley, nounrise, verbriver, nounriver basin, nounriver bed, nounRoman, adjectiverotation, nounrugged, adjectiverun-off, nounrural, adjectivesand, nounsand bar, nounsandstorm, nounsandy, adjectivesavanna, nounScandinavian, nounscar, nounscarp, nounscree, nounscrubland, nounSE, seaboard, nounsea breeze, nounseafront, nounsea level, nounseaport, nounseaward, adjectivesection, nounsemitropical, adjectiveshelf, nounslough, nounsmog, nounsnowfield, nounsource, nounsouth, nounsouth, adjectivesouth, adverbSouth America, adjectivesoutheast, nounsoutheast, adjectivesoutheasterly, adjectivesoutheastern, adjectivesoutheastwards, adverbsoutherly, adjectivesouthern, adjectivesouthernmost, adjectivesouthwards, adverbsouthwest, nounsouthwest, adjectivesouthwesterly, adjectivesouthwestern, adjectivesouthwestwards, adverbspeleology, nounspit, nounspur, nounstrait, nounsubcontinent, nounsubtropical, adjectivesuburb, nounsuburban, adjectivesummit, nounsurvey, nounsurvey, verbSW, swamp, nountableland, nounterrain, nounterritory, nountidal, adjectivetidal wave, nountidewater, nountime zone, nountop, nountopography, nountor, nountornado, nountown, nountown centre, nountowpath, nountrack, nountract, nountrade route, nountrail, nountransatlantic, adjectivetranscontinental, adjectivetributary, nountropic, nountropical, adjectivetundra, nountyphoon, nounUK, the, uncharted, adjectiveup, adverbup-country, adjectiveuplands, nounupper, adjectiveupriver, adverbupstate, adjectiveupstream, adverbuptown, adverburban, adjectiveurbanized, adjectiveurban renewal, nounurban sprawl, nounUS, the, adjectivevalley, nounW, warm front, nounwaste, adjectivewasteland, nounwater, verbwatercourse, nounwaterfall, nounwaterfront, nounwaterhole, nounwatering place, nounwater meadow, nounwatershed, nounwater table, nounwaterway, nounweather vane, nounwest, nounwest, adjectiveWest, nounwestern, adjectiveWesterner, nounwesternmost, adjectivewestward, adverbwilderness, nounwolds, nounzoning, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 the provincial government of Quebec
 a provincial town
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=in a part of the country that is not near the capital)· There have been protests in the capital and in provincial cities.
(=one that is not near the capital)· Many provincial towns were transformed by the coming of the railway.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.
· This provided for the election by all landowners over the age of twenty-five of representatives to local and provincial assemblies.· The three are fighting over control of the provincial assemblies, which will be important in the run-up to the election.· The delegates sit in a provincial assembly and implement directives from both regional and national capitals.· Press and provincial assemblies hastened to proclaim solidarity with the Tsar.· Preliminary results for elections to a total of 483 seats in the four provincial assemblies were announced on Oct. 29.· The three provincial assemblies together constitute the Territorial Congress.· Mr Ishaq wants all the provincial assemblies dissolved, in order to create a constitutional crisis that will force a general election.· Some of Mr Sharif's infuriated followers then kidnapped the secretary of the provincial assembly, Chaudry Habibullah.
· The provincial authorities were to turn over more revenue to the state while receiving reduced subsidies, in order to centralize resources.· Coverage of the Henan scandal also points the finger at inaction by the provincial authorities.· The plenum had been delayed for several months, allegedly because of divisions over economic policy between the central and provincial authorities.
· His son trucks the tangerines and apples to the provincial capital, and even down into Henan province.· Each month the district officer spent a whole day writing a full report to the political secretary in the provincial capital.· Coventry was a provincial capital, one of the half-dozen largest provincial cities and the fourth richest.· Meanwhile, a curfew was imposed in Pristina, the provincial capital.· In 1949, for example, the provincial capital of Urumqi had few Han.· The river Aver continues westward past the provincial capital at Averheim and finally flows into the Reik at Nuln.· This thriving group included some of the old provincial capitals such as Bristol, Newcastle and Norwich.· On June 26, 16 people belonging to one family were massacred in the Punjab provincial capital, Lahore.
· Similar student protests were held on the same day in provincial centres.
· But the following month saw a renewed wave of strikes paralyse St Petersburg, Moscow and many provincial cities.· In Britain, the old tradition of private patronage in the great provincial cities is reviving - but not fast enough.· Coventry was a provincial capital, one of the half-dozen largest provincial cities and the fourth richest.· In the first place, since little research had taken place outside London, we chose to investigate a provincial city.· The leading provincial cities were tiny in comparison with the capital.· From that time to this Kiev has evolved, like Naples or Boston, into both a great and a provincial city.· In Iasi, a provincial city in the north-east of the country, more than 70 lawyers and law students attended.
· The Council is associated with other local authorities represented on the national and provincial councils dealing with local authorities' services.· His five provincial councils were to be appointed rather than indirectly elected and concerned primarily with intergovernmental relations.
· The Freedom party had already lost support last October and December in two provincial elections.· Yet the premier, facing a provincial election that year, could scarcely halt the growing pressure for public, power.
· We drove up to the provincial government building in Xiangzhou, a few miles to the north.· Elections to a lower house of parliament would be by proportional representation and an upper house would be appointed by provincial governments.· The philanthropic family's largesse was echoed by surprise announcements from both the Federal and provincial governments.· A reform of provincial government banking was also announced.· The provincial government did not send a team to investigate until August 1.· Some of the no-show gun owners were making a protest, and at least one provincial government has challenged the law.
· The reforms were supported by President Carlos Saúl Menem, the other provincial governors and congressional deputies and senators.· New commissars replaced the provincial governors.· He was a Persian provincial governor, whose powers had few limits provided he stayed loyal.· In a decree of October 1856 he strengthened the hand of provincial governors.· Last week one provincial governor was blocked in his attempt to build a new road through the park.· On the provincial commissions the provincial governor or his deputy would take the place of the Interior Ministry official.· Other appointments A number of provincial governors were moved in August 1990.
· There is no provision for a regional or provincial level of local government.· Only 42 new members were elected to the committee, mostly party or government officials from the central or provincial levels.· Independent lateral contacts at provincial levels were discouraged.· It should not be imagined that the tiny Party élite at either of these provincial levels could maintain a tight hold.· Chief among these special functions was a governmental or administrative duty at either local or provincial level or possibly both.
· The quality of achievement Two national newspaper mentions may be more important to your client than thirty provincial newspapers and magazines.· The low price helped Notimex become the principal news source for many small provincial newspapers.· Yakovlev, the head of Agitprop and one of the chief architects of the cut-back in provincial newspapers in January.· It is also asking for air-time on radio and television, and for access to national and provincial newspapers and magazines.· The national executive of the union called out on strike all its members on provincial newspapers.· The defendants claimed that what they were doing was in furtherance of their dispute with the provincial newspapers.· At the end of the war, provincial newspaper ownership took three forms.· Others were part of a provincial newspaper group.
· The implications of concentration of provincial press ownership are greater when its geographical variation is taken into account.· The idea of local radio fitted snugly with local ownership, like the provincial press.· The reciprocal relationship between pamphlet and newspaper insertion was only one way in which reformers used both the London and provincial press.· Numbers of novelists, poets, essayists and artists had early work printed by provincial presses.· For the provincial press, any calculation is complicated by questions of market boundaries and different types of publication.· In the provincial press, and especially the local weeklies, it is more difficult to believe that direct influence was rare.
· There were reports of demonstrations and lawlessness in some provincial towns.· His provincial town of Flaxborough is a portrait of what might be any somewhat cut-off provincial town anywhere in Britain.· There is growing evidence that white supremacist groups are renewing hate campaigns against Aborigines in some provincial towns.· His provincial town of Flaxborough is a portrait of what might be any somewhat cut-off provincial town anywhere in Britain.· Foremost among provincial towns were a handful of regional capitals with populations upwards of five or six thousand.· In the provincial towns of San Miguel and Santa Ana, the markets were also occupied.· Similar scenes were reported in provincial towns in the vicinity of military camps.
1[only before noun] relating to or coming from a province:  a provincial election the provincial government of Quebec2relating to or coming from the parts of a country that are not near the capital:  a provincial town3old-fashioned and not interested in anything new or different – used to show disapproval:  provincial attitudes
provincial1 adjectiveprovincial2 noun
provincialprovincial2 noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • His request had been accepted without comment by the provincials concerned.
  • Maybe I was blotting out my past, as provincials do, in my haste to get to where the action was.
  • Nor were the strongest provincials, United and Associated, dominant in either the quality or the popular national market.
  • Stormes was a representative of the Jesuit provincial, Father Edward Glynn.
  • To his left sat Father Jim Stormes, a representative of the Jesuit provincial.
  • Whatever the case, the provincial was encouraged.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=in a part of the country that is not near the capital)· There have been protests in the capital and in provincial cities.
(=one that is not near the capital)· Many provincial towns were transformed by the coming of the railway.
someone who comes from a part of a country that is not near the capital, especially someone who is not interested in anything new or different – often used to show disapproval
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