Metropolis
[mɪ'trɒp(ə)lɪs] or [mə'trɑpəlɪs]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
(n.) The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.
編輯:纽曼
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Chief city, capital.
埃塞尔手打
解釋/意思:
n. the capital of a country; the chief cathedral city as Canterbury of England: the mother-city of an ancient Greek colony: a generic focus in the distribution of plants or animals:—pl. Metrop′olises.—adj. Metropol′itan belonging to a metropolis: pertaining to the mother-church.—n. the bishop of a metropolis presiding over the other bishops of a province: an archbishop.—n. Metropol′itanate.—adjs. Metropol′itic -al.
埃斯特尔校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A stronghold of provincialism.
整理:凯瑟琳
例句/造句/用法:
- The next day she proceeded to the Asylum, which was situated not far from London on the northern side of the metropolis. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- On the 26th day of October we arrived at the metropolis, called in their language _Lorbrulgrud_, or Pride of the Universe. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Such levity is proper enough in the provinces, we make no doubt, but it ill suits the dignity of the metropolis. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He remained in London a year and a half, working in two of the leading printing establishments of the metropolis, where his skill and reliability were soon prized. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- One day my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The Sanhedrim met here last, and for three hundred years Tiberias was the metropolis of the Jews in Palestine. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The metropolis, I imagine, is a pretty fair sample of the rest. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- We have to deal with all grades of life from the frontier to the metropolis, with men who differ in sense of fact, in ideal, in the very groundwork of morals. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But men saw that it was bound to grow, for railroads would have to come to bring the wheat and others to carry it away, and that meant that some day it would be a great metropolis. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- A description of the metropolis, and the country adjoining. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- He had traced the man to one of the most penurious streets in the metropolis. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- To a certain extent--with regard to populous districts, and in the metropolis, said the Doctor. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It seemed fitting that this cosmopolitan organization should be located in the world's metropolis rather than in a mere university town. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- They came from the east and the north, and directed their course without apparent motive, but unanimously towards our unhappy metropolis. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The king's palace; and some account of the metropolis. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
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