metropolitan
英 [ˌmet.rəˈpɒl.ɪ.tən]
美 [ˌmet.rəˈpɑː.lə.tən]
- adj. 大都市的；大主教辖区的；宗主国的
- n. 大城市人；大主教；宗主国的公民
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记忆方法
将“metropolitan”分解为“metro-”（与城市有关）和“polis”（希腊语中的“城市”）。想象一个城市里的“metro”（地铁），这个词形容的是像大都市那样繁华、复杂的城市区域，因此记忆为“都市的”。
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中文词源
metropolitan 大都会的
来自metropolis,大都会。
英语词源
- metropolitan (n.)
- early 15c., "bishop having oversight of other bishops," from Late Latin metropolitanus, from Greek metropolis "mother city" (from which others have been colonized), also "capital city," from meter "mother" (see mother (n.1)) + polis "city" (see polis).
In Greek, "parent state of a colony;" later, "see of a metropolitan bishop." In the West, the position now roughly corresponds to archbishop, but in the Greek church it ranks above it. - metropolitan (adj.)
- 1540s, "belonging to an ecclesiastical metropolis," from Late Latin metropolitanus, from Greek metropolites "resident of a city," from metropolis (see metropolitan (n.)). Meaning "belonging to a chief or capital city" is from 1550s. In reference to underground city railways, it is attested from 1867.
权威例句
- 1. He is currently being held in a metropolitan correctional center.
- 他现在被关在一个大城市的改造中心。
- 2. This is yet another slur on the integrity of the Metropolitan Police.
- 这是对伦敦市警察局刚正廉明作风的又一次诽谤。
- 3. The Metropolitan Police say clear-up figures were improved.
- 伦敦警方称破案率在过去有所提高。
- 4. the New York metropolitan area
- 纽约市区
- 5. Canadian French is different from the language of metropolitan France.
- 加拿大的法语与法国本土的法语不相同.