| 单词 | the city that never sleeps |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe city that never sleeps P5. the city that never sleeps and variants: (a name given to) a city that is busy and lively at all times of the day and night. The phrase is now most frequently associated with New York City, but is also applied to Mumbai, Barcelona, and Tel Aviv, among others. ΚΠ 1878 Goshen (Indiana) Times 7 Mar. 1/4 Although midnight, the city that never sleeps was alive with vehicles and foot passengers. 1939 E. Wells Champagne Days of San Francisco 1 ‘The city that never slept’, it was called in champagne days, ‘for in those days no gentleman ordered anything with the dinner save champagne.’ 1977 F. Ebb New York, New York (song) in www.lyricsmania.com (O.E.D. Archive) I wanna wake up in the city, that doesn't sleep. 2006 New Yorker 5 June 35/1 It's part of the caffeinated romance of the city that never sleeps. < as lemmas |
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