catchment area

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“It depends on the store level and the catchment area,” he says.
他指出：“类型要取决于商店的等级以及其所服务地区的情况。”
Being in the catchment area of a good school is no guarantee of a place.
要知道，在一所好学校的附近上学也并不能保证肯定能被学校录取。
It was inaugurated in 2008 and acts as a tidal barrier to keep seawater out, thus turning the island’s most populated district into a water-catchment area and the harbour into a reservoir.
这座大坝落成于2008年，是作为阻挡海水与潮汐的一道屏障而修建的，将这个岛上人口最密集的区域和港口变成了一座水库。

For the first time, places in its eight secondary schools will have been allocated randomly within each catchment area.
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With more applications than places, the school would have to resort to admitting only pupils from within a defined catchment area.
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In geography, the catchment area of a river is the area of land from which water flows into the river.