英 [ˈsmɔːl taʊn] 美 [ˈsmɔːl taʊn]
小镇：一个小型（通常是农村）城镇。
smalltown //
形容词 Smalltown is used when referring to small places, usually in the United States, where people are friendly, honest, and polite, or to the people there. Smalltown is also sometimes used to suggest that someone has old-fashioned ideas. (通常指美国的)小镇民风淳朴友好的; 小镇居民的; (思想)偏狭守旧的
...an idealized smalltown America of neat, middle-class homes.
...理想化了的富有小镇风情的美国，到处是整洁的中产阶级住宅。
a community of people smaller than a town
同义词： village / settlement
小城镇-引用次数：1024
Small town environment planning is based on the above proposed reality.
小城镇生态环境规划就是基于以上现实而提出的。
小城市-引用次数：11
The small town developed rapidly in the past ten years. Nevertheless, under the surface of the heatedly city building, there is a severely absence of theory and distortion of view.
近10年来我国小城市获得迅速发展，然而，在其快速发展的表面之下是指导理论的缺失和价值观念的歪曲，表现出来的问题主要是：空间形态建设不合理；公共空间系统性不足。
参考来源小城市公共空间系统的规划与建设
小镇-引用次数：48
With his delicate, incisive social perception, he explores the lonely spirits of the small town people who have dropped out of their time.
安德森以敏锐的社会洞察力探索了保守的小镇人的孤独心灵。
小乡镇-引用次数：2
There have description about small town and philosophical interpretation about "slow" and "delicate" in the novel about craftsman.
手艺人小说中有着充满浓重传统色彩的小乡镇描写,还传达了一种“慢”与“细”的哲学意蕴。
参考来源试论八十年代以来的手艺人小说创作
小城镇
小城
小城镇，集镇
Life in a small town could be deadly dull.
小城镇的生活可能会非常没意思。
It's a big city but it has the feel of a small town.
这是座大城市，却给人一个小城镇的印象。
Two miles further on we came to a small town.
我们又走了两英里，来到了一座小镇。
Magnolia is a small town and for many of my students this was an opportunity to travel around the world."
VOA : special.2009.11.12
They ended up moving to a small town and no longer engaged in subsistence agriculture, if his parents had, or his grandparents.
最后他们移居到一个小镇上,不再把持小农经营,不像他爸妈,或者祖父一辈
美国内战与重建课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
So, I grew up in a small town.
我在一个小镇长大。
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 地铁的好处
Today,the gunfight at the OK Corral brings visitors from all over the world to the small town of Tombstone.
VOA : special.2010.02.15
The Nobel Prize committee said the book provides one of the best descriptions of small town life ever written.
VOA : special.2009.03.13
In 1859, Hellman emigrated from a small town in Bavaria to the rough-and-tumble settlement of Los Angeles.
The Old Quay House in the small town of Fowey is the epitome of the upmarket trend.
But even as Dogpatch booms, devotees say the district still feels like a small town within the city.
BBC: After going to the dogs, a Californian quarter heats up