City
['sɪtɪ] or ['sɪti]
解释:
(noun.) people living in a large densely populated municipality; 'the city voted for Republicans in 1994'.
(noun.) a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; 'Ancient Troy was a great city'.
(noun.) an incorporated administrative district established by state charter; 'the city raised the tax rate'.
黛朵录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A large town.
(n.) A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.
(n.) The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a city.
整理:胡安妮塔
同义词及近义词：
n. Incorporated town.
编辑:米考伯
解释:
n. a large town: a town with a corporation.—n.pl. Cit′y-commis′sioners officials who attend to the drainage &c.—n. Cit′y-mis′sion a mission for evangelising the poor classes in the large cities.—adj. Civ′ic pertaining to a city or citizen.—City of God Heavenly city &c. the ideal of the Church of Christ in glory; City of refuge by the Jewish law a city where the perpetrator of an accidental murder might flee for refuge.—Eternal city Rome; Holy city Jerusalem.—The City The City of London that part of London where business is principally carried on.
詹妮整理
娱乐性解释：
To dream that you are in a strange city, denotes you will have sorrowful occasion to change your abode or mode of living.
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例句:
- I begged a fortnight's grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Mounting, Sola upon one beast, and Dejah Thoris behind me upon the other, we rode from the city of Thark through the hills to the south. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- There was something to the English peculiarly attractive in the idea of this wave-encircled, island-enthroned city. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- He pictured the town emancipated from its ugliness and its cruelty--a beautiful city for free men and women. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- But at my age I can hardly get to the city, and therefore you should come oftener to the Piraeus. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The _cable car_ is a factor which has cut no small figure in the activities of city life. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- You can beat Tammany Hall permanently in one way--by making the government of a city as human, as kindly, as jolly as Tammany Hall. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Take the horses into the City! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- In the first place, are they not free; and is not the city full of freedom and frankness--a man may say and do what he likes? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the great city. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- The swiftness with which the papers displaced the gruesome details of the little girl's death by exultation over the business future of the city was a caution. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Convinced of his security from Persia, Pericles spent the war hoard of the allies upon the beautification of his city. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The city of Messina, milk-white, and starred and spangled all over with gaslights, was a fairy spectacle. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Where does your city obtain its water? 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Hundreds of cities and millions of dollars have been thus saved from destruction. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- He had it written up for the newspapers, and advertised public demonstrations of its powers, and arranged that Bell should lecture on it in different cities. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The lines, she said, were waterways; the circles, cities; and one far to the northwest of us she pointed out as Helium. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- We do that way in our cities. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Encouraged by these disasters of the imperial power, the Ionian cities in Asia began for a second time to revolt against the Persians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- We do not look in great cities for our best morality. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Many great cities and plains and deserts have been provided with these wells owing to the ease with which they can now be sunk. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- This Atticus had an immense fortune, and he amused himself by huge architectural benefactions to various cities. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There were a few lighters and barges, but none of the great merchantmen such as ply the upper air between the cities of the outer world. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- It seems probable that in the Athenian population among all the Greek cities the pre-Aryan strain was unusually strong. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Not only were the cities outwardly more splendidly built, but within the homes of the wealthy there had been great advances in the art of decoration. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The passengers do not turn out at unseasonable hours, as they used to, to get the earliest possible glimpse of strange foreign cities. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Cities situated in plains and remote from mountains are obliged to utilize the water of such streams as flow through the land, forcing it to the necessary height by means of pumps. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Her picturesque form no longer looms above the desert of the Dead Sea to remind the tourist of the doom that fell upon the lost cities. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- So Athens was disliked and envied by her own empire; her disasters were not felt and shared as disasters by her subject-cities. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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