often as modifierA part of a country characterized by declining industry and a falling population, especially in the American Midwest and north-eastern states.
〈非正式〉锈带，工业衰退地带（指工业衰退，工厂老化和人口减少的地区，尤指美国中西部和东北部各州）
a rust-belt town
一个工业衰退地带的城镇。
Example sentencesExamples
He attempted to elaborate on the theme of the downsized economy where Roger and Me left off, but the book's description of a rust-belt dystopia of pink slips and unemployment checks was out of date way before it hit the bookstores.
In the view of some it is as if the management of the FRG has failed, in its hostile takeover of a failed rust-belt industry, to treat its newly acquired property with sufficient sangfroid.
Already, in the rust-belt cities of China's north-east, there are hundreds of thousands of illegal refugees from North Korea.
Buffalo has a legacy of dreams gone sour, and even today, surrounded by the horn of American plenty, we are still very much the rust belt.
‘Steeltown’ details the vanishing machine politics of a decaying rust-belt town.
Young people are leaving and rust-belt cities such as Eisenhuettenstadt and Wittenberge are shrinking and ageing rapidly.
Another corporate drama is playing out on the great rust belt stage here in the Midwest.
As those industries declined, the upper Midwest became known as the rust belt.
I suppose my point is that the potential is there for dozens of regional ethanol plants in the rust-belt towns and states of Australia to be built.
In the Midwest and in the rust belt they're going to be very upset about people making sneakers in very poor countries.
The Dabrowa Gornicza steel plant near Katowice, Poland, is a cathedral of Soviet-era rust belt industry.
The state, in an effort to transform an area dependent on government bureaucracy and rust-belt industry into another Silicon Valley, has invested hundreds of millions already in the Albany Nanotech campus.
From the streets of rust-belt cities such as Harbin, it may look like a mighty challenge - but it's one that China and its leaders can't afford to ignore.
The darkest red areas are the opposite: heavily industrialized northeast France (including Lille) with high industrial unemployment, communist labor unions and rust-belt industries.
Maria and the other woman tending bar both have rust-belt accents.
The deindustrialization of these rust-belt cities, and the resulting economic impact on workers' lives, is one of the recurring themes of his poetry.
More and more rust-belt companies in Eastern Europe are realizing the benefits of going green.
Christmas has come early for local TV stations in the capital of America's industrial rust belt.
Those in the Midwest's rust belt have been hit hard by job losses, particularly in well-paying manufacturing jobs.
The Midwest is shedding its rust-belt reputation for a new era of artistic appreciation, according to a poll of readers of AmericanStyle, a bi-annual arts lifestyle publication.