metropolis
音标：
英音/ məˈtrɒpəlɪs / 美音/ məˈtrɑːpəlɪs /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Nine other deaths were reported in Hebei province, just outside the metropolis and the source of much of its food and labor.
河北省报告了另外九人死亡，该省位于该市的外围，也是该市大部分食物和劳动力的来源地。
—Washington Times
The Autobahn was part of West Germany’s utopian post-war ideology of a modern capitalist metropolis: the car would be king and concrete highways would smooth over the scars of a city traumatised by war.
高速公路是西德战后现代资本主义大都市乌托邦意识形态的一部分：汽车将成为王道，混凝土高速公路将抚平这座饱受战争创伤的城市的伤痕。
—BBC
The new cities proposal consists of a national contest to charter up to 10 D.C.-sized metropolises on undeveloped federal land.
新城市提案包括一项全国竞赛，旨在在未开发的联邦土地上租用多达 10 个华盛顿特区规模的大都市。
—Washington Post
基本释意：
noun
a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
（国或地区的）首都，首府；大都会，大城市；教会省份的首领；殖民地的起源城市或国家
同义词：
city,urban center,city
短释义：
The noun metropolis comes from the Greek roots mētēr, meaning “mother,” and pólis, meaning “city.” Historically, the word referred to the founding city-state of a region in Ancient Greece. Today the word refers to any urban area. The largest metropolis in Massachusetts is Boston, which is also the capital. Sometimes people use the word metropolis ironically or sarcastically: “She came from the booming metropolis of Tumbleweed, population 325.”
一个人口稠密的大都市地区被称为大都市。 “她喜欢住在大都市，因为城市里有很多其他地方没有的机会，比如24小时营业的餐馆。”
长释义：
The noun metropolis comes from the Greek roots mētēr, meaning “mother,” and pólis, meaning “city.” Historically, the word referred to the founding city-state of a region in Ancient Greece. Today the word refers to any urban area. The largest metropolis in Massachusetts is Boston, which is also the capital. Sometimes people use the word metropolis ironically or sarcastically: “She came from the booming metropolis of Tumbleweed, population 325.”
名词“大都市”源自希腊语词根“mētēr”，意思是“母亲”，和“polis”，意思是“城市”。从历史上看，这个词指的是古希腊某个地区的创始城邦。今天这个词指的是任何城市地区。马萨诸塞州最大的大都市是波士顿，也是其首府。有时人们会讽刺或挖苦地使用“大都市”这个词：“她来自繁荣的大都市风滚草，人口325人。”
文学例句：
“The arrogance of big-city folk! You grant your metropolises all the animals of Eden, but you deny my hamlet the merest Bengal tiger!”
“大城市人的傲慢！你给了你的大都市所有伊甸园的动物，却拒绝给我的村庄哪怕是最微不足道的孟加拉虎！”
—Life of Pi by Yann Martel
New Orleans is. on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.
新奥尔良是。另一方面，这是一个舒适的大都市，有一定的冷漠和停滞，我觉得这并不令人反感。
—A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
And Capital City stretched out in golden glory under a golden sun,—the newest and youngest creation of Homo metropolis.
首都在金色的阳光下展现出金色的光辉，这是人类都市最新、最年轻的创造。
—I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
词源：
metropolis (n.)1530s, “seat of a metropolitan bishop,” from Late Latin metropolis, which is from Greek (see metropolitan (n.)). Meaning “chief town or capital city of a province” is attested from 1580s; the earlier word for this in English was metropol (late 14c.) or metropolitan (mid-15c.). Related: Metropolitical “pertaining to or belonging to a metropolis.”Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
Metropolitan (n.)1530s，“大都会主教的席位”，源自后期拉丁语 Metropolis，源自希腊语（参见 Metropolitan (n.)）。意思是“一个省的主要城镇或省会城市”，从1580年代就得到证实；英语中较早的词是“metropol”（14世纪末）或“metropolitan”（15世纪中叶）。相关：大都市“属于或属于大都市”。相关条目及更多
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