metropolis

1 Scott’s “Blade Runner” envisioned Los Angeles in 2019 as a sprawling urban metropolis infused with Eastern and Western cultures.

2 The vibrancy the visitors witnessed reflects the idea of “one integrated metropolis,” said Michael Dear, an emeritus professor of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

3 If 101 seems a rather small number to sum up the history of so vast a metropolis, just 30 might seem even less plausible.

4 She chose a deliberately flat literal rendering, and he decided to use a more poetic term that conveys a sense of a metropolis.

5 On that day in Mr. Moles’s truck, I passed fallow hayfields, cutting into the plantation from its southern corner to rattle through fields where an apiarist had established a little metropolis of white-painted hives.

6 The new mash-up of “pop” and “metropolis” is notable mainly for being defined not by what it is, but what it isn’t.

7 The Spanish were designing gridded cities in the wilderness long before Pierre L’Enfant ever saw the Potomac, and helped make metropolises that were never part of their empire.

8 Tuesday begins the next phase of New York City’s totalitarian effort to turn one of the world’s great metropolises into a “mommy state” where no one is allowed to have any fun.

9 This was a great , pleasing metropolis after all.

这毕竟是个令人振奋的大都市.

10 But Kang is betting on a future beyond the pandemic, banking on the return of money from China to finish transforming the scrappy frontier town into a gleaming metropolis.

11 Major carnival parades and other festivities will also take place in other cities, including Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest metropolis, and Salvador, a city in the northeast.

12 Many of the cancellations affected flights to and from Chicago, Minneapolis and other Midwestern metropolises.

13 But there is one metropolis where the fare needs no introduction: Jakarta.

14 To send a letter to a metropolis of your immensity — 32 million residents! — shows, as we say here in New York, chutzpah.

15 Quebec City feels very French, while Toronto is a fast-paced metropolis and Vancouver has a laid-back vibe.

16 The metropolis is a confusion of old and new.

大都市是新与旧的大杂烩.

17 Ingelsby initially envisioned the story in Philadelphia, but it was moved to New York City, particularly the outer boroughs, and Collet-Serra clearly was energized by the pace of the metropolis.

18 He planted the offices in the midst of this black metropolis, rolled up his sleeves, and went to work.

19 Chappel had a more hardscrabble life, probably spent entirely in Manhattan, and toward its end he painted scenes of everyday life in the budding metropolis of his childhood.

20 But Kentridge, 67, is also a collaborator, a believer in the communal power of art and art-making, and energetically engaged with his home city: Johannesburg, South Africa’s gritty and vibrant major metropolis.

1 中心城市

town capital

2 大城市

metropolitan smoke the Big Smoke metro the smoke the big smoke civilization

3 首都

metropolitan town capital Central African Republic the Republic of India Western Samoa Saint Lucia Saint Christopher and Nevis SAo Tomé and Principe the Federation of Malaysia Bourkina Fasso White Russia the Republic of Ireland United Arab Emirates Russian Federation Dominican Republic Ivory Coast Czech Republic Cape Verde Equatorial Guinea cap. capital city

4 首府

metropolitan capital cap.

5 大都会

metropolitan megalopolis

6 宗主国

imperial suzerain metropolitan

7 伦敦

metropolitan London town

8 京城

metropolitan

9 大主教教区

metropolitan

10 大都市

metropolitan metro apple conurbation

11 中心

heart centre hub nexus ganglion epicentre central internal center core nucleus nuclear polar umbilical centric centrical focus staple forefront navel epicenter medulla umbilicus centrum centricity foco heartbeat