metropolis

英 [mɪ'trɒp(ə)lɪs] 美 [mə'trɑpəlɪs]

解释

※ 提供单词"metropolis"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

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.).

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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.

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.

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.