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西部边疆,边远地区(指 20 世纪前美国西部欧洲移民尚未定居的部分)
When you are talking about the western part of America before the twentieth century, you use frontier to refer to the area beyond the part settled by Europeans.
例句
...a far-flung outpost on the frontier.
远驻西部边疆的前哨