| 单词 | big city |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbig city big city n. and adj. originally U.S. (a) n. a metropolis; the largest city in a particular region; (b) adj. (attributive) (usually with hyphen) of, relating to, or characteristic of a large city; metropolitan. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] > large city Babylon1581 megalopolis1828 big city1836 the smoke1864 megacity1967 1836 Huron Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio) 5 Jan. It has just received a second lot of goods this Fall, (only two weeks from the big city). 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Options 110 The big city is like a mother's knee to many who have strayed far and found the roads rough beneath their uncertain feet. 1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest xxiii. 235 A big-city paper or two are sending in special correspondents. 2004 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 13 June i. 6/1 The salsa of big-city life in the hemisphere's biggest city. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 29 June 19/2 Anyone who hightails it to Brooklyn simply can't hack it in the big city. < as lemmas |
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