metropolis是什么意思,metropolis怎么读


metropolis基本信息

读法:英 [mɪ"trɒp(ə)lɪs] 美 [mə"trɑpəlɪs]

释义:

  • n. 大都市;首府;重要中心
  • n. (Metropolis)人名;(英)梅特罗波利斯
  • 使用频率:★

    星级词汇:★

    英英释义

    Noun:

  • a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts;"Ancient Troy was a great city"
  • people living in a large densely populated municipality;"the city voted for Republicans in 1994"
  • 中英词源

    metropolis 大城市,大都会

    来自希腊语meter,母亲,词源同mother,polis,城市,词源同police,policy.比喻用法。

    metropolis
    metropolis: [16] A metropolis is etymologically a ‘mother city’. The word comes via late Latin mētropolis from Greek mētrópolis, a compound formed from métēr ‘mother’ (a distant relative of English mother) and pólis ‘city’ (source of English police, policy, politics, etc).
    => mother, police, policy, politics
    metropolis (n.)
    "seat of a metropolitan bishop," 1530s, from Late Latin metropolis; see metropolitan. Meaning "chief town or capital city of a province" is first attested 1580s, earlier metropol (late 14c.).

    词态变化

    复数 metropolises;

    权威造句

    1. He was dazzled by the gaiety and splendour of the metropolis.
    大都市的花花世界使他感到眼花缭乱.

    来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

    2. Shanghai is a metropolis in China.
    上海是中国的大都市。

    来自辞典例句

    3. This was a great , pleasing metropolis after all.
    这毕竟是个令人振奋的大都市.

    来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

    4. New York has the sweetest water in the world, for a metropolis.
    就一个大都会来说,纽约可说有世界上最甜美的水了.

    来自辞典例句

    5. Tessenow decried the metropolis and extolled the peasant virtues.
    特森诺夫痛诋大都市,颂扬农民的美德.

    来自辞典例句

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    近反义词

  • city 城市
  • megalopolis 特大都市
  • capital 首都
  • centre 中心
  • municipality 自治市
  • downtown 市中心区
  • town 城市
  • business district 商业区
  • inner city 市中心区
  • conurbation 集合城市(具有许多卫星城...
  • core city central city
  • asphalt jungle 资本主义国家竞争激烈, ...
  • metropolitan area 大城市区域
  • urban sprawl 城区的无计划扩张...
  • sprawl 躺卧
  • core 核心
  • district 地区
  • urban 城市的
  • inner 内心的
  • asphalt 沥青
  • jungle 丛林的
  • business 商业
  • urban center 市中心区
  • 相似短语

  • metropolis city 都 会
  • 单词分析

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