| 词汇 | metropolitan |
| 释义 | metropolitan adjective uk /ˌmet.rəˈpɒl.ɪ.tən/ us /ˌmet.rəˈpɑː.lə.tən/ relating to a large city: 大都市的 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York纽约大都会艺术博物馆 He was drawn to the metropolitan glamour and excitement of Paris.他为巴黎的大都会魅力与激情所吸引。 a metropolitan area大都市区 Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general) aerotropolis anti-city anti-urban boom town Brummie burgher Cantabrigian central city civic conurbation garden city metropolitan elite multi-city municipal native place non-municipal open city small-town smoke urbanite metropolitan | American Dictionarymetropolitan adjective us/ˌme·trəˈpɑl·ɪ·tən/ of or in a large city: the Boston metropolitan area the Metropolitan Museum of Art Examples of metropolitanmetropolitan And this was particularly true for children in regions remote from the metropolitan centres of music. The deflationary policies enacted in response to the depression led to severe cutbacks in metropolitan army effectives in the early 1930s. These were countries that functioned as plantation economies within the international division of labour, supplying tropical agricultural products to industrialised metropolitan countries. Most accounts of this change have emphasized the influence of metropolitan interests and ideas more conducive to state involvement in colonial economies. All participants attended preschool programmes in the suburbs of a major metropolitan area. It was reported also that 35 per cent of supermarkets belonging to chains in the metropolitan area were affected. In this case it is migrants working in metropolitan centres and military personnel who bring in new goods and styles on their visits home. This provincial paradise would triumph over the decadence of metropolitan culture simply by escaping its infections. While this trade was subject to various state regulations, ' as in other spheres, metropolitan control hovered in the background but was limited ' (p. 141). They were thus incompatible with politeness, which was allied with the metropolitan and cosmopolitan and the pursuit of a general culture. As one would expect, it is a depiction that has also been observed in metropolitan newspapers. His metropolitan existence lacks this tragic, poetic register. The underlying dependence of the post-colonial bourgeoisie upon metropolitan sponsors remains unchanged. In actual fact, return from the colonies to the metropole was a routine phenomenon, and returned colonials were familiar figures on the metropolitan landscape. It is difficult to find any precise quantitative information about the evolution of the number of clerks in the metropolitan administration. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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