释义 |
neighbourlyneigh‧bour‧ly British English, neighborly American English /ˈneɪbəli $ -ər-/ adjective - And so the miscreants trooped back home to Bean Street, perhaps to bandage the wounds of their neighbourly dispute.
- Even when industrialisation took most men out of the home, women ensured that the old neighbourly traditions lived on.
- He let a neighbourly grin slide over his foxy face.
- How religiously, if only in order to obviate neighbourly interference, the Darcian woman would observe contraceptive precautions!
- Now and then neighbourly visits received and paid.
- On occasion, old people are difficult to help and neighbourly relations become fraught.
- Telephones can be installed, emergency call-card systems operated and local neighbourly help recruited to reduce the isolation of many old people.
- Thus, shopping is a regular feature of neighbourly support but intimate bodily tasks are rarely performed.
behaving in a friendly and helpful way towards the people who live next to you or towards the countries that are next to you: the importance of good neighbourly relations between the two countries—neighbourliness noun [uncountable] |