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metropolis

/mi-trop-uh-lis/US // mɪˈtrɒp ə lɪs //UK // (mɪˈtrɒpəlɪs) //

大都会,大都市,大城市,都市

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural me·trop·o·lis·es.

    • : any large, busy city.
    • : the chief, and sometimes capital, city of a country, state, or region.
    • : a central or principal place, as of some activity: the music metropolis of France.
    • : the mother city or parent state of a colony, especially of an ancient Greek colony.
    • : the chief see of an ecclesiastical province.

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Examples

  • From Shanghai to Seoul, Tokyo to Singapore, Asia’s muggy, rapidly rising metropolises have been among the first in the world to embrace indoor farms at scale.

  • San Diego can’t afford to turn away from those water sources that supported its growth from a small farming mission to a sprawling metropolis.

  • With her family originally hailing from Louisiana, Knowles-Lawson spent her childhood in Galveston, Texas, but it was the metropolis of Houston that taught her she had to dream big to be big.

  • It is now a thriving, diverse, and welcoming metropolis, and one of the fastest growing cities in the country.

  • Nestled on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago is an industrious metropolis that’s an exciting place for the LGBTQ community.

  • The town of Liqian sits on the edge of the Gobi desert, 200 miles from any metropolis, and 4,500 miles from Rome.

  • But in New York City, a metropolis with an abundance of concrete and very few fields of grass, a far more subtle display appears.

  • The 30-something heroine glamorized the metropolis and its coveted name brands, Arora says.

  • It was the Civil War that drove Leslie from his Cincinnati home to the bustling metropolis of New York City.

  • The co-owner of Metropolis Collectables, Vincent has Wolverine mutton chops, a Tony Stark goatee, and Lex Luthor swagger.

  • As for Brammel, he consented, as he was ready to agree to any thing but a personal visit to the great metropolis.

  • Manila was formerly the capital of the province of that name, as well as the Philippine metropolis.

  • He settled at Shawmut, which was finally determined upon for the metropolis, and named Boston.

  • Before the close of the year, it found its way from Sunderland and Newcastle to the suburbs of the metropolis.

  • In the metropolis, an extraordinary assembly of the national union took place.