要是你看過美國的西部電影的話，你很可能看到過那種被遺棄的城鎮(zhèn)。美國人把它們叫做：ghost town。Ghost town就是一些被遺棄的城鎮(zhèn)，也被稱作“鬼城”。一百多年前，成千上萬的人都爭先恐后到美國西部去淘金，想一夜就變成富翁。當時那里的小城鎮(zhèn)都很繁榮，后來，隨著淘金活動的結束，人們也就逐個地離開了那里到別處去謀生，這些城鎮(zhèn)也就沒有生命了。下面的例句是一個人在形容ghost town的凄涼情景：
"These old ghost towns can give you a scary feeling, with the buildings falling apart and the only sound is the moaning of the wind blowing through the deserted streets." 被遺棄的城鎮(zhèn)真讓你感到害怕。那里的房子東倒西歪，能聽到的聲音就是在那沒有人的街道上風吹的嗚嗚響聲。
就是在現(xiàn)代的美國社會中，有些城鎮(zhèn)由于經(jīng)濟條件的變化仍然會被遺棄。
I come from a city in Illinois which used to have three big steel plants. But these factories closed twenty years ago and the city has almost become a ghost town with most of the people gone and most of the stores and houses boarded up like a mining town out West." 我的老家是在伊利諾伊州的一個城市。那里原來有三個大鋼鐵廠。但是，二十年前這些廠就關閉了，那里的大多數(shù)人也都搬走了，商店和房屋都釘上了木
"These old ghost towns can give you a scary feeling, with the buildings falling apart and the only sound is the moaning of the wind blowing through the deserted streets." 被遺棄的城鎮(zhèn)真讓你感到害怕。那里的房子東倒西歪，能聽到的聲音就是在那沒有人的街道上風吹的嗚嗚響聲。
就是在現(xiàn)代的美國社會中，有些城鎮(zhèn)由于經(jīng)濟條件的變化仍然會被遺棄。
I come from a city in Illinois which used to have three big steel plants. But these factories closed twenty years ago and the city has almost become a ghost town with most of the people gone and most of the stores and houses boarded up like a mining town out West." 我的老家是在伊利諾伊州的一個城市。那里原來有三個大鋼鐵廠。但是，二十年前這些廠就關閉了，那里的大多數(shù)人也都搬走了，商店和房屋都釘上了木