metropolises

英 [mɪˈtrɒpəlɪsɪz]

美 [məˈtrɑpələsɪz]

n.  大都会; 大城市; 首都; 首府
metropolis的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 首都;大都会;大都市
  Ametropolisis the largest, busiest, and most important city in a country or region.
  1. ...the bustling metropolis of Chengdu.
     熙熙攘攘的大城市成都

双语例句

• These factory towns were trying to refashion themselves into high-tech, low-pollution, value-added modern metropolises.
  这些制造业城市正努力将自己重塑为高科技、低污染、高附加值的现代都市。
• Hong Kong is one of the world's most prosperous metropolises and a place of the eastern and western cultural fusion.
  香港是世界最繁荣的大都会之一，也是中西文化的汇聚之地。
• It also allowed Samsung to more easily expand beyond large metropolises such as Shanghai and Guangdong, markets that Mr Kim says have become saturated.
  三星还能借此更容易地向上海和广东等大都会以外扩张。金永夏表示，这些大城市的市场已经饱和。
• Subways are found only in metropolises including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, as well as Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
  仅在中国的大都市如香港特别行政区，及北京、上海、天津、南京、广州和深圳才有地铁。
• As many as 90 cities in China have a population of more than 1m. Mr Wong says, however: A city might be wealthy, but people might not shop locally particularly if there are high-speed trains [ to take prospective customers to major metropolises].
  中国人口在100万以上的城市多达90个，但王日明表示：一个城市就算很富裕，人们也未必会在当地购物，特别是有高铁的地方（高铁会把潜在顾客带到大城市）。
• As China unveiled a shiny new high-speed train connecting the great metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai on Monday there was one thing conspicuously absent from the comfortable new carriages: a speedometer.
  周一，中国推出了一条连接北京和上海两大都市的崭新高速铁路专线。然而在舒适的新车厢里，有一件东西却明显不见了踪影：时速表。
• As more and more young Chinese complete their exodus from major metropolises to less polluted small towns, their counterparts in the US are increasingly finding themselves stuck in big cities.
  在中国，越来越多的年轻人逃离大城市，移居环境较好的小城镇；与此同时，在美国，却有越来越多的年轻人发现自己被困在了大城市。
• Metropolises design, make and sell everything, especially services.
  大城市设计、生产、销售一切东西，尤其是服务。
• Market towns trade crops. Second cities produce and trade manufactured goods. Metropolises design, make and sell everything, especially services.
  集镇交换农作物；二线城市生产并交易制成品；大城市设计、生产并销售各种商品、特别是服务。
• Similar trends are noted throughout many of China's larger central and eastern metropolises.
  类似的潮流在中国中部和东部的许多大都市中也是随处可见。