outskirts

n. 郊区

Presently she recognized that she was already in the outskirts of the city.

不久她看出，她已经到达这座城市的郊区。

Fires swept through the outskirts, where the houses, being mostly of wood, were razed to the ground.

大火席卷郊区，那里的房屋多数都是木造的，被烧成了一片废墟。