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这两个词在中文里虽然都可以译为郊区，但是还是有明显区别的。

首先我们先来看一下对他们的英文解释：

1. Lots of people live in a suburb: it just means not in the city, but there can still be hundreds of homes and thousands of people in a suburb, with its own schools, police, shops, etc.
2. The outskirts means far from all other people--far from the city, far from the suburb. People live there, but not so many, and usually they are poor people who cannot afford to live in the more expensive houses in the city and suburb.

也就是说suburb虽然指郊区，但是还是一个人群相对集中的地方，其本身设施结构齐全，只是相对城区来说位置不在中心；
而outskirts比郊区还要偏远，而且居住在这里的人比较少且生活条件较为低下。


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