metro

1 You'll learn, for instance, that in 1996 Chile became the first country to establish a library service on its underground metro train network.

2 Bilbao has become a design town marked by its Fosteritos, the metro stops designed by the English architect Norman Foster that look like giant shrimp.

3 Of course, he had to ride the metro because he was too young to drive.

4 One minute we were in the heart of Tucson, Ariz., among the restaurants, coffee shops and businesses you’d expect in a metro area of more than a million people.

5 A scattering of campuses mean there’s a big student population, but there’s also an international crowd, drawn by reasonable rents and a metro link to the city centre.

6 Low point: "Collapsing on the metro in Baku, Azerbaijan, due to exhaustion, then being arrested and questioned two hours later."

7 A new report by the New York City Department of City Planning shows housing production in the metro area is falling increasingly short of job growth.

8 At a metro stop near his apartment, he would see Russian veterans of the Chechen wars hanging out, drinking and begging for change.

9 Point-to-point flights cut travel times by eliminating the intermediate stop — typically a big advantage for travelers who are not flying from major metro areas.

10 Because the city doesn't run the schools, it can't classify school playgrounds as city-owned parks, as some other metro areas do.

11 Tokyo contains multitudes, which we mean literally—the metro are is home to more than 35 million people, and on a muggy day in August you can feel nearly every one of them.

12 There were protests when the government decided to demolish the building to expand Taipei's metro system in 1994.

13 Washington, D.C., has a robust real estate market, at least compared with most other metros.

14 The city's 2,700 metro police officers will be visible on horses and bicycles, and will also blend into the crowd and watch for bad behavior and more serious offenses.

15 Other companies that take people on tours from metro Atlanta to North Georgia include Wine Tours of Georgia and the Vino Van.

16 Below is NerdWallet’s 2024 list of the 10 best U.S. metro areas for freelancers and the self-employed.

17 To find out, the Brookings Institution analyzed 100 metro areas in the U.S. to see which cities are getting it right and which aren't.

18 He stalked women headed home from work late at night on the S-Bahn, part of the Berlin metro train system.

19 On the morning of departure, sirens wailed and police cordons appeared around Moscow, closing metro stations and blocking access to supermarkets owing to the arrival of Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin.

20 The one-line metro in Rennes stops at the train station, and taxis are also available, though most sights are within walking distance.

1 地下铁路

tube underground subway underground railway Underground Railroad

2 大都会的

metropolitan

3 大城市

the Big Smoke metropolis the smoke metropolitan the big smoke

4 首府

capital

5 地下铁道

tube underground subway u-bahn underground railway

6 大城市的

metropolitan

7 地铁

underground subway train the Tube the underground rapid transit

8 大都市的

metropolitan

9 小型汽车

bug compact mini kart minicar

10 地铁列车

tube

11 大都市

metropolitan metropolis conurbation bigalopolis