metropolitan

英 [metr?'p?l?t(?)n] 美[,m?tr?'pɑl?t?n]

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metropolitan 大都會的

來自metropolis,大都會。

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.

1. He is currently being held in a metropolitan correctional center.: 他現在被關在一個大城市的改造中心。

2. This is yet another slur on the integrity of the Metropolitan Police.: 這是對倫敦市警察局剛正廉明作風的又一次誹謗。

3. The Metropolitan Police say clear-up figures were improved.: 倫敦警方稱破案率在過去有所提高。

5. Canadian French is different from the language of metropolitan France.: 加拿大的法語與法國本土的法語不相同.