英语单词 | mayor |
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英美音标 | 英 [meə(r)] 美 ['meɪər] |
中文释义 | n.市长 |
英语例句 | (1) The mayor made a speech at the opening. (2) The mayor is determined to clean up the city. (3) He is the deputy mayor of the city. |
中文例句 | (1) 市长在开幕式上发表了演说。 (2) 市长决心清除市内的不良现象。 (3) 他是本市的副市长。 |
vocabulary简明 | The mayor is the leader of a city. He or she heads the city government. Just as a president leads a country, a mayor leads a city. Like other politicians, mayors must run for office and win an election. |
vocabulary扩展 | The word mayor comes from the Old French maire for "head of a city or town government" but most mayors probably like the original meaning, which is "greater, superior." Alas, mayors do run cities but calling them all superior is a stretch! In the United States, the president leads the country, a governor leads a state, and a mayor leads a city. If it’s used as a title for a particular mayor, as in Mayor Smith, it’s capitalized. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]市长 The mayor of a town or city is the person who has been elected to represent it for a fixed period of time or, in some places, to run its government. [oft |
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