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neighbourly

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++neigh·bour·ly British English, neighborly American English /ˈneɪbəli $ -ər-/ adjective  FRIENDLYbehaving in a friendly and helpful way towards the people who live next to you or towards the countries that are next to you 睦邻的;友好的,友善的 the importance of good neighbourly relations between the two countries 两国间睦邻友好关系的重要性neighbourliness noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
neighbourlyAnd so the miscreants trooped back home to Bean Street, perhaps to bandage the wounds of their neighbourly dispute.He let a neighbourly grin slide over his foxy face.Telephones can be installed, emergency call-card systems operated and local neighbourly help recruited to reduce the isolation of many old people.How religiously, if only in order to obviate neighbourly interference, the Darcian woman would observe contraceptive precautions!On occasion, old people are difficult to help and neighbourly relations become fraught.Thus, shopping is a regular feature of neighbourly support but intimate bodily tasks are rarely performed.Even when industrialisation took most men out of the home, women ensured that the old neighbourly traditions lived on.Now and then neighbourly visits received and paid.
neigh·bour·ly adjectiveChineseSyllable
helpful behaving and way Corpus in a friendly


neighbourly
neighbourly British English, neighborly American English /ˈneɪbəli $ -ər-/ adjective
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]


neigh·bour·ly (especially US neigh·bor·ly) BrE /ˈneɪbəli/ 🔊NAmE /ˈneɪbərli/ 🔊 adjectiveinvolving people, countries, etc. that live or are located near each other 邻近的;接壤的;住在附近的the importance of good neighbourly relations between the two states这两国间睦邻友好关系的重要性neighbourly help邻里间的帮助a neighbourly dispute邻居间的纷争friendly and helpful 热心肠的;乐于助人的 SYN kind It was a neighbourly gesture of theirs. 这是他们友好的表示。🔊🔊 neigh·bour·li·ness BrE /ˈneɪbəlinəs/ 🔊NAmE /ˈneɪbərlinəs/ 🔊 (especially US neighbor·li·ness) noun [uncountable] good neighbourliness睦邻关系a sense of community and neighbourliness社区互助意识