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单词 metropolis
释义
metropolis
noun[C]
formal
uk
/məˈtrɒp.əl.ɪs/us
/məˈtrɑː.pəl.ɪs/
a verylargecity, often the mostimportantcityin alargeareaorcountry:
大城市，大都会；首府；首都
Soonafterwardshelefttobeginhiscareerin the metropolis.不久之后他就离开到大城市去开展事业了。
asprawling/bustling/modernmetropolis不断向外扩展的／繁忙的／现代化的大都市
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general)
  • aerotropolis
  • anti-city
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  • Cantabrigian
  • citywide
  • county borough
  • dormitory town
  • garden city
  • Londoner
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  • municipal
  • retirement community
  • retirement village
  • sanctuary city
  • sister city
  • twin
  • urban
  • urbanization
  • village
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(Definition ofmetropolisfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

metropolis| American Dictionary

metropolis
noun[C]
us
/məˈtrɑp·ə·lɪs/
alargecity,esp. themaincityof acountryorregion:
Chicago is amajormetropolis.
(Definition ofmetropolisfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

metropolis| Business English

metropolis
noun[C]
uk
/məˈtrɒpəlɪs/us
a verylargecity, often the mostimportantcityin alargearea:
Houston, the fourth mostpopulousUScity, is asprawlingmetropolis.
As the world's firstgreatindustrialmetropolis, London was also one of the first to bebadlypolluted.
(Definition ofmetropolisfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmetropolis

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That frustration expressed itself in harsh censure of ametropoliswhere success apparently had to be won at the price of personal honour.
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On the one hand, those systems permitted the country to "invade" the city, as country dwellers migrated to themetropolisin huge numbers.
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Furthermore, themetropoliswas an important purveyor of cinematographic spectacle, as witnessed by the popularity of an early genre : the ' ' urban panoramas.
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A further example of this process can be found in the concept of circulation that dominated the industrial development of the nineteenth-centurymetropolis.
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But in the world'smetropoliseven the imperial language itself cannot retain its purity.
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And there the bells speak, recalling him as one who is destined to penetrate to the commercial metropolis's inner core.
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Finally, the dividedmetropolisprovided fertile ground for new ideas about the role of government.
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A major concern throughout the book is to trace the bonds linkingmetropolisand provinces.
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The data suggest that these foreign residents were of intermediate status, perhaps, as argued earlier, serving as merchants or trade representatives from the highlandmetropolis.
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The remaining chapters assess how themetropolisattempted to re-establish control over its dominions and examine the settlers' responses to these various initiatives.
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We observe that in the heart of the greatmetropolis, linguistic changes advance steadily from one female age cohort to another.
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He traces the development of racism in thatmetropolisfrom its origins in the early seventeenth century.
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However, new ways of 'doing' urban history have begun to stimulate greater interest in themetropolisas an object of study.
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Of course, this was possible because of another boundary - geographical distance - between the colony and themetropolis.
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But the characteristics of themetropolisforce historians to reconsider this idea.
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