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单词 metropolitan
释义
metropolitan
adjective
uk
/ˌmet.rəˈpɒl.ɪ.tən/us
/ˌmet.rəˈpɑː.lə.tən/
relatingto alargecity:
大都市的
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York纽约大都会艺术博物馆
He wasdrawnto the metropolitanglamourandexcitementofParis.他为巴黎的大都会魅力与激情所吸引。
a metropolitanarea大都市区
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(Definition ofmetropolitanfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

metropolitan| American Dictionary

metropolitan
adjective
us
/ˌme·trəˈpɑl·ɪ·tən/
of or in alargecity:
the Boston metropolitanarea
the Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Definition ofmetropolitanfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmetropolitan

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And this was particularly true for children in regions remote from themetropolitancentres of music.
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The deflationary policies enacted in response to the depression led to severe cutbacks inmetropolitanarmy effectives in the early 1930s.
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These were countries that functioned as plantation economies within the international division of labour, supplying tropical agricultural products to industrialisedmetropolitancountries.
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Most accounts of this change have emphasized the influence ofmetropolitaninterests and ideas more conducive to state involvement in colonial economies.
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All participants attended preschool programmes in the suburbs of a majormetropolitanarea.
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It was reported also that 35 per cent of supermarkets belonging to chains in themetropolitanarea were affected.
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In this case it is migrants working inmetropolitancentres and military personnel who bring in new goods and styles on their visits home.
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This provincial paradise would triumph over the decadence ofmetropolitanculture simply by escaping its infections.
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While this trade was subject to various state regulations, ' as in other spheres,metropolitancontrol hovered in the background but was limited ' (p. 141).
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They were thus incompatible with politeness, which was allied with themetropolitanand cosmopolitan and the pursuit of a general culture.
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As one would expect, it is a depiction that has also been observed inmetropolitannewspapers.
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Hismetropolitanexistence lacks this tragic, poetic register.
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The underlying dependence of the post-colonial bourgeoisie uponmetropolitansponsors remains unchanged.
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In actual fact, return from the colonies to the metropole was a routine phenomenon, and returned colonials were familiar figures on themetropolitanlandscape.
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It is difficult to find any precise quantitative information about the evolution of the number of clerks in themetropolitanadministration.
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