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 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• As retailers and marketers have rushed into China, shoppers there are responding, triggering a shift particularly among consumers living in China's so-called Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities outside the metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai.
  随着零售公司和营销公司蜂拥进入中国，中国的购物者开始做出响应，这引发了中国消费者消费习惯的转变，特别是在北京和上海以外的二三线城市。
• 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。
• Study on Development Strategies and System Structure of Passenger Traffic in Metropolises of China
  我国特大城市客运交通系统结构和发展战略研究
• 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。