| 正面 | 4332.metropolitan 英 [metrə'pɒlɪt(ə)n]美 [,mɛtrə'pɑlɪtən]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1、amb- "around" + ire "go" => ambire "go around".2、ambitus "a going round," past participle of ambire. => ambit-.3、ambit- => ambiti- + -ous.4、字面含义："a going around," especially to solicit votes.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 例句： 1. He is currently being held in a metropolitan correctional center.他现在被关在一个大城市的改造中心。 metropolitan 大都会的来自metropolis,大都会。 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." |