metropolitan
英 [metrə'pɒlɪt(ə)n]
美[,mɛtrə'pɑlɪtən]
- 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
考试真题
- None of the chain's stores in the Washington metropolitan area are to be closed.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
- So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
- It is highly important to expand the metropolitan areas.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
- first, the earthquake would shake metropolitan areas including Seattle and Portland.
2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C
- Twenty years ago, the Urban Land Institute defined the two types of cities that dominated the US landscape: smaller cities that operated around standard 9-5 business hours and large metropolitan areas that ran all 24 hours of the day.
2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C
- The cloisters museum and gardens is a branch of the metropolitan museum of art devoted to the art and architecture of Europe in the middle ages.
2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文