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

• 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）。
• But its biggest metropolises conspicuously failed to explode in size.
  然而总所周知，其最大省会城市的规模却并未激增。
• The team noticed that in metropolises like Shanghai, there is a huge waste of coffee grounds every day.
  这支团队注意到，在上海这样的大都市，每天都有大量的咖啡渣被白白浪费掉。
• Driven by the surging demand, giant shopping malls have been springing up in Chinese metropolises such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
  由于需求的激增，大型购物中心已在北京、上海、深圳这样的中国大都市涌现出来。
• Shanghai is one of the most dynamic and modernized metropolises in China, and meanwhile, Shanghai is also the most important economic, financial, shipping and trading centre in China.
  上海是中国最具活力的现代化大都市之一，同时也是中国最重要的经济、金融、航运和贸易中心。
• Many big cities, including Beijing, plan to become major world metropolises in the future.
  包括北京在内的很多大城市，都计划在未来成为世界级的大都市。
• Traffic congestions are occurring daily in Chinas metropolises, wasting energy and time.
  在中国的大都市，交通拥堵每天都在发生，不仅浪费了能源，也浪费了时间。
• This has turned great metropolises such as Shanghai into vast laboratories of consumer research.
  新兴市场把上海之类的重大城市转为研究顾客的大型实验室。
• While coastal China and its major metropolises evince tremendous wealth, large swaths of Western China remain mired in poverty.
  中国沿海城市和一些重要的都市非常富裕，与贫穷的西部存在巨大的差距。
• 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。