首页英语词典citycity的意思

city

英 ['sɪtɪ] 美['sɪti]

英英释义同义词辨析考试真题实用场景例句

近义词metropolis

n. 城市，都市
adj. 城市的；都会的

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复数: cities;

中文词源

city 城市

来自PIE*kei,躺下，休息，词源同civil,home.-ty,名词后缀。词义由休息引申至家园，住所。在中世纪city 和town 在规模上并无明显区别。

英英释意

1. a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts;: "Ancient Troy was a great city"

2. an incorporated administrative district established by state charter;: "the city raised the tax rate"

3. people living in a large densely populated municipality;: "the city voted for Republicans in 1994"

英文词源

city: city: [13] The Latin word for ‘city’ was urbs (whence English urban), but a ‘citizen’ was cīvis. From this was derived the noun cīvitās, which originally had the abstract sense ‘citizenship’. Gradually it acquired more concrete connotations, eventually coming to be used as a synonym of urbs. It passed into English via Old French cite, and at first was used for any settlement, regardless of size (although it was evidently felt to be a grander term than the native borough); the modern distinction between towns and cities developed during the 14th century.

The Italian descendant of Latin cīvitās is città. A now obsolete variant of this was cittade, whose diminutive form is the source of English citadel [16].
=> citadel, citizen, civil
city (n.): early 13c., in medieval usage a cathedral town, but originally "any settlement," regardless of size (distinction from town is 14c., though in English it always seems to have ranked above borough), from Old French cite "town, city" (10c., Modern French cité), from earlier citet, from Latin civitatem (nominative civitas; in Late Latin sometimes citatem) originally "citizenship, condition or rights of a citizen, membership in the community," later "community of citizens, state, commonwealth" (used, for instance of the Gaulish tribes), from civis "townsman," from PIE root *kei- "to lie; bed, couch; homestead; beloved, dear" (see cemetery).

The sense has been transferred from the inhabitants to the place. The Latin word for "city" was urbs, but a resident was civis. Civitas seems to have replaced urbs as Rome (the ultimate urbs) lost its prestige. Loss of Latin -v- is regular in French in some situations (compare alleger from alleviare; neige from nivea; jeune from juvenis. A different sound evolution from the Latin word yielded Italian citta, Catalan ciutat, Spanish ciudad, Portuguese cidade.

Replaced Old English burh (see borough). London is the city from 1550s. As an adjective from c. 1300. City hall first recorded 1670s to fight city hall is 1913, American English; city slicker first recorded 1916 (see slick); both American English. City limits is from 1825. The newspaper city desk attested from 1878. Inner city first attested 1968. City state (also city-state) is attested from 1877.

同义词辨析

city, town

这两个名词均含"城市"之意。

city：一般指大城市或重要城市。

town：一般指规模小的城镇，也指城市中的市区，有时也泛指城市。

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an accelerating speeda shift to city centersa new focus on small citiesan ever-increasing demandPeople can live without private cars.

Urbanization – migration away from the suburbs and to the city center – will be the biggest real estate trend in 2015, according to a new report.

The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walkability and transit-oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successful.

The report refers to this as the coming of the 18-hour city, and uses the term to refer to cities like Houston, Austin, Charlotte, and Nashville, which are positioning themselves as highly competitive, in terms of livability, employment offerings, and recreational and cultural facilities.

As smaller cities copy the model of these 24-hour cities, more affordable versions of these places will be created.

After that, survey respondents disagree over whether this generation will follow in their parents' footsteps, moving to the suburbs to raise families, or will choose to remain in the city center.

Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

Cathy Nonas is with the New York City Department of Health.

Big fast food chains in New York City have started to obey a first-of-its-kind rule requiring them to post calorie counts right on the menu.

The weather is terrible, particularly in winter, and there's no interesting old city to make up for it, as there is in Boston.

It is an old city with many sites of historical interest.

Last night 40,000 people rented accommodation from a service that offers 250,000 rooms in 30,000 cities in 192 countries.

Andrew's runs a food pantry(食品堂)that serves the city and several of the surrounding towns.

The company changed its privacy rules so that many things you city

Districts all over the country are taking notice, along with mayors in cities like New York, Chicago and San Diego.

It embraces district-sanctioned magnet schools, such as the Talented and Gifted School, with 198 students, and the Science and Engineering Magnet,with383,which share a building in Dallas, as well as the City Honors School in Buffalo, N.Y., which grew out of volunteerevening seminars for students.

Yeah, but that only leaves me 30 minutes to clear customs in getting to the city center and (13) it means I have to check in by 5:30, which means leaving home at about 4:

The city is very hot this time of the year.

Lisa, our little company, and it is little compared to the giants in the city

City officials cooperated with the 4-H members in planting trees, building cooking facilities, pick-me tables, swings and public rest rooms.

They were encouraged by the city officials' praise

He ran home and telephoned the city police to say that his car had been stolen.

Lewis had to take a taxi to visit the city garage far from the city center.

The supermarkets outside the city are so much cheaper.

A business professor says that a future city should have easy access to international transportation.

A South Korean city designed for the future takes on a life of its own.

According to an urban design professor, it is difficult for city designers to foresee what happen in the future.

After making a stop for a few hours at a British station on the edge of Antarctica, the two workers were flown to the southernmost Chilean city of Punta Arenas.

And it's becoming a great place to work," says Scott Summers, the vice president of Gale International, the developer of the city.

And that's the probe Songdo has become a popular Korean city —more popular as a residential area than a business one.

Big fast food chains in New York city have started to obey a first-of-its-kind rule requiring them to post calorie counts right on the menu.

But it takes a lot more than a nearby airport to be a city of the future.

Byun Young-jin chairs the Songdo real estate association and started selling property here when the first phase of the city opened in 2005.

Cathy Nonas is with the New York city Department of Health.

Cities that get more rainfall than Seattle include Huston, Memphis, Nashville, and pretty much every major city on the eastern coast, such as New York, Boston, and Miami.

Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center, an art museum in the Santa Monica Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurred by the haze.

Getting around a city is one thing — and then there's the matter of getting from one city to another.

If city leaders were more accountable to their residents, they might favour projects designed to help them more.

In 2014 City Hall developed a plan to knock down the building and replace it with affordable housing.

In 2014, UNESCO gave Italy two years to manage Venice's flourishing tourism or the city would be placed on another list—World Heritage In Danger, joining such sites as Aleppo and Palmyra,destroyed by the war in Syria.

Interstate highways connect just about every large and mid-sized city in the country.

It's expected to raise $410 million over the next five years, most of which will go toward funding a universal pre-kindergarten program for the city.

I've got a second interview with that big foreign accountancy firm in the city center.

New York city police captured a cow on the loose in Prospect Park on Tuesday after the animal became an attraction for tourists while walking along the streets and enjoying the park facilities.

One vision of the perfect city of the future: a place that offers easy access to air travel.

Park Yeon Soo conceived this city of the future back in 1986.

Philadelphia's new measure was approved by a 13 to 4 city council vote.

Songdo has ended up different from the city it was supposed to be.

Songdo, a city built from scratch in South Korea, is one of Kasarda's prime examples.

That feeling echoes the beliefs of the Therapeutic Food Pantry program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, which completed its pilot phase and is about to expand on an ongoing basis to five clinic sites throughout the city.

That hurts the ancient wooden poles holding up the city underwater.

The city is still unfinished, and it feels a bit like a theme park.

The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies, with employees from all over the world.

The fifth largest city in US passed a significant soda tax proposal that will levy 1.5 cents per liquid ounce on distributors.

The weather is terrible, particularly in winter, and there's no interesting old city to make up for it, as there is in Boston.

Thirty years after he imagined the city, Park's baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36.

Until now, the only city to successfully pass and implement a soda tax was Berkeley, California, in 2014.

When night falls, red and blue and other colors cast a hazy glow over a city lit up by tens of thousands of neon signs.

While the city council vote was met with applause inside the council room, opponents to the measure, including soda lobbyists made sharp criticisms and a promise to challenge the tax in court.

Its flagship stores in major U.S. cities depend heavily on international tourist spending, which shrank at many retailers due to a strong dollar.

A New York City-based nonprofit called Bridge to Enter Mathematics runs a residential summer program aimed at getting underserved students, mostly black and Hispanic, working toward math and science careers.

You will hear more and more about migration between countries and between rural areas and cities.

Unlike developed cities, however, these areas lack advanced water-treatment facilities, and rivers effectively become sewers ( ' , 下水道).

The report focused on poor urban areas, where farms in or near cities supply relatively inexpensive food.

Assist the city government in reforming schools.

Secretary Anthony Foxx, to talk about smart cities, and Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Huerta, to talk about drones.

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

Chetty finds that communities like Salt Lake City, with high levels of two-parent families and religiosity, are much more likely to see poor children get ahead than communities like Atlanta, with high levels of racial and economic segregation.

Across the developed world, ear use is in decline as more people move to city centers, while young people especially are opting for other means of travel.

Also, Venice, the city eternally threatened by the sea, where every morning wooden pathways have to be set up to allow tourists to reach their hotels.

And his home city of Sacramento, California should see the technology's first test.

As part of the upgrading of its rail yard, Kasselman, who is an inventor and self-proclaimed "steam visionary", is campaigning for a new steam train that runs without any fire and could run on an existing ten- kilometer line, driving tourists and perhaps

Assuming all goes well, the airport should open in October 2020, but the still empty airport stands as the biggest embarrassment to Germany's reputation for efficiency and a continuing drain on city and state resources.

Chetty finds that communities like Salt Lake city, with high levels of two- parent families and religiosity, are much more likely to see poor children get ahead than communities like Atlanta, with high levels of racial and economic segregation.

City University of New York CUNY, Rutgers University, and Indiana University were out of reach as were mississippi State and the University of Alabama, where I would have to pay out-of-state fees.

In 2012, the city planted opening ceremony.

Instead, I dreamed of living in New York City and my parents obliged me with a visit to New York University's NYU campus.

Movement out of city centers was widespread, and downtown tenants were predominantly made up of the working poor.

My school didn't come pre-packaged like the more popular options, so we were left to take care of ourselves, figuring out city life and trying to complete degree programs that no one was championing for us to succeed in.

So Frankie in both real life and in the TV show lives in New York city, is a comic, is divorced, and has two little daughters.

So what would a smug-free, or at least low-pollution, city be like?

Still, the track coach had offered me a walk-on spot, and I actually found the urban Atlanta campus a decent consolation prize after New York city.

The city broke ground on the new airport in 2006.

There are more than plenty in our city, and we felt they are all rather similar to each other.

These scenes are turning up in the southern French city of Arles, surprising the historians who have been working here since 2014.

We can see this in almost every large city worldwide.

We have a cafe and library upstairs and a ticket office down the hall where you can buy tickets to all the major Jazz concerts in the city.

A city is the product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's intelligence and creativity.

A photography exhibition held by Han Media to celebrate its founding in New York city on April 24, featuring three emerging Chinese photographers; yingxi Michael Shi, Haiyin lin and liming Guan, whose works have appeared in publications such as Vogue.

Alia knew that if the books were to be safe, they must be moved again while the city was quiet.

Although Dr Dominoni has only studied light pollution, other research concluded that robins living in noisy cities have started to sing at night to make themselves heard over loud noise.

Among the bag makers' arguments: many cities with bans still allow shoppers to purchase paper bags, which are easily recycled but require more energy to produce and transport.

An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt.

And I need to show him around the city.

Big cities generally have heavy traffic and expensive parking, but there you have a choice of taking public transport, which is cheaper than driving.

Bradford said that large modern theaters in the city made it impossible for the plaza to compete.

But gold was discovered there in 1897, and two years later, it was one of the largest cities in the west, with a population of 30, 000.

But however long it takes, the technology has the potential to change our transportation systems and our cities, for better or for worse, depending on how the transformation is regulated.

But not all cities develop slowly over a long period of time.

By painting buildings white, cities may slow down the warming process.

By rail: the nearest station is Cark-in-cartmel with trains to Carnforth, Lancaster and Preston for connections to major cities & airports.

Cities usually have a good reason for being where they are, like a nearby port or river.

Companies have been testing their vehicles in cities across the country.

Dawson did not have any of the natural conveniences of cities like London or Paris.

During my second year at the city college, I was told that the education department was offering a "free" course, called thinking chess, for three credits.

Each one felt responsible for the welfare of athens, not because it was forced on him from the outside, but because the city was his pride and his safety.

Every year more than 10, 000 people head for the city of albuquerque, new mexico.

For those who fly to Guilin, it's only an hour away by car and offers all the scenery of the better-known city.

Further, Dallas arts and arts-based businesses produce $298 for every dollar the city spends on arts programming and facilities.

He added that he hopes people in other cities might try similar projects and post their own videos on the Internet.

He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again.

Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their big apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion.

Hilversum is a medium-sized city between the major cities of Amsterdam and utrecht in the Gooi area of north Holland, the netherlands.

However, within a few years, street sales of newspapers would be commonplace in eastern cities.

I absent-mindedly turned the pages of the phone book and came across a city map.

I also love the exciting life in big cities.

I first met Paul Newman in 1968, when George Roy Hill, the director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, introduced us in New York city.

I grew up in a small town until I was 18 and then moved to a big city, so I have experienced the good and bad sides of both.

I guess that can be true in any big city in a new country, but the French do seem to be less friendly than the people back home.

I live in the city now, and my paperboy is a lady named edna with three kids.

I never thought that I would like living in a big city, but I was wrong.

If the air you're breathing is clean—which it would be if you're away from the smog of cities—then the air is filled with life-giving, energizing oxygen.

I'll join him in Mexico city.

In cities all over the world, people go to cafés to relax alone or with friends.

In Greece, in Athens, a little city in a little country, there were no helpless masses.

In most cities the sky looks as though it has been emptied of stars, leaving behind a vacant haze that mirrors our fear of the dark.

It had been the Athenian's pride and joy to give to their city.

It is cut off from big cities.

It is the rise and fall of a city.

It looks like an open air museum in the city.

It was in the middle of Pearl City.

It will be sold to the city government.

Last week some city officials suggested the city might be interested in turning the old theater into a museum and public meeting place.

Last year her fantasy story which involved the mysterious Forbidden City received critical acclaim.

Look over the "city of dreaming spires" from St Mary's church tower.

Louis, Missouri for a week, and then fly to your city.

Nearly 40 percent of Jazz lovers live outside of the Dallas city limits and drive or fly in to enjoy an evening in the Bishop Arts district.

New York City, for example, is near a large harbour at the mouth of the Hudson River.

Of course, safety should be considered, and that's one area where small towns are better than big cities.

Oxford: includes a guided tour of england's oldest university city and colleges.

She grew up in one of jamaica's toughest inner-city communities known as Waterhouse, where she lived in a one-room apartment, sleeping four in a bed with her mother and two brothers.

She's lived in the city most of her life, but she knows about community.

So I enter the city college to take English classes for foreign students.

So many end up in tree branches or along highways that a growing number of cities do not allow them at checkouts.

So, if you don't have a car, you'd better live in the city.

So, which city did you like better, Paris or rome?

Steinhardt discusses the forbidden city and Beijing's imperial architecture.

Still, I would rather be a bit more careful and live in a large city than to feel safe but dull.

Surely small towns and big cities both have some problems in terms of transport.

The accents placed at the bottom in this study, on the other hand, were regional地区的city accents.

The air was so different from the city, cool and fresh.

The Athenians no longer took pride in the city.

The bags are prohibited in some 90 cities in California, including Los Angeles.

The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.

The city of brussels was covered in snowmen—an impressive scene that told stories on every street corner.

The city planner decided to build an underground drainage system, but there simply wasn't enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level.

The city planners were convinced by Ellis Chesbrough to build the pipes above ground.

The city was crowded with disappointed people with no interest in settling down, and when they heard there were new gold discoveries in alaska, they left dawson city as quickly as they had come.

The coming technological advancement presents a chance for cities and states to develop transportation systems designed to move more people, and more affordably.

The final thing I like about large cities is that you can meet different kinds of people.

The first session of the China institute in America short course beijing: the city through its architecture opens on Wednesday.

The four-year-old dog set off racing after the sheep across several fields and, being a city animal, lost both her sheep and her sense of direction.

The most obvious thing is that there is much more activity in the streets than in a typical US city.

The move, imitating a similar structure in far eastern cities such as Hong Kong, is designed to increase the number of people using long escalators at the busiest times.

The number of cities producing co beyond the standard has been reduced from 40 to 9.

The only two options were to lower the Chicago river or raise the city.

The trip is scheduled to start on December 21 in New York city and continue on to milan, Prague and New Delhi before ending in Toronto on January 8.

There had to be a complete change of attitude before they could look at the city as an employer who paid her citizens for doing her work.

They are supportive of the city officials.

They found the city too crowded.

They have lowered their co-levels in forty cities.

This delicious tour goes through the city on its way to treasure island where we will stop at the famous Winery SF.

This example should act as an inspiration for all cities.

This is how much temperatures would rise by 2100 even if nations live up to the initial Paris promises to reduce carbon emissions; this rise could still put coastal cities under water and drive over half of all species to extinction.

Tiverton is more and more like a big city.

To make the city known to the world.

Today all three generations regard the move to a success, giving them a closer relationship than they would have had in separate cities.

Visit the city with over 2, 000 years of history and bath abbey, the royal crescent and the costume museum, stonehenge is one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5, 000 years.

We’ll leave Bostonon June 20th, stay in St. Louis, Missouri for a week, and then flyto your city.

What's particularly interesting is the attitude various cities have toward dubanchet's cause.

When the car's owner John anderson and his colleague Carol Lawrence returned to the car-which was itself worth ￡35, 000—in Glasgow city centre, they were shocked to find two policemen standing next to it.

With no rains for over a year, the city is suffering from unusually hot weather.

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

Thousands of Aztec artifacts came to light during the digging of the Mexico City subway in the 1970s.

The resulting settlement maps show how the distribution and density of the rural population around the city changed dramatically between AD500 and 850, when Copán collapsed.

The researchers mapped not only the city’s vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.

In one case, many researchers working around the ancient Maya city of Copan, Honduras, have located hundreds of small rural villages and individual dwellings by using aerial photographs and by making surveys on foot.

In another case, American archaeologists Rene Million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

At its peak around AD 600, this city was one of the largest human settlements in the world.

And also, the Middle East excepted, Europe is the most monarch-infested region in the world, with 10 kingdoms ( ' , not counting Vatican City and Andorra).

The sensible place to build new houses，factories and offices is where people are，in cities and towns where infrastructure is in place.

It was specifically to provide city dwellers with spaces for leisure where they could experience “a refreshing air”.

As much of Mexico city shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to crop up in New York city, the southwestern United States and around the world.

But it can be done: Glasgow's year as European capital of culture can certainly be seen as one of complex series of factors that have turned the city into the power of art, music and theatre that it remains today.

But mayors and councilors can only do so much about a problem that is far bigger than any one city or town.

In another case, American archaeologists Rene million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

In one case, many researchers working around the ancient Maya City of Copan, Honduras, have located hundreds of small rural villages and individual dwellings by using aerial photographs and by making surveys on foot.

It is hard to get right, and requires a remarkable degree of vision, as well as cooperation between city authorities, the private sector, community.

Restrictions that keep highly polluting cars out of certain areas - city centers, school streets", even individual roads - are a response to the absence of a larger effort to properly enforce existing regulations and require auto companies to bring their

Seven months and one election day later, a new conservative city council suspended enforcement of the clean air zone, a first step toward its possible demise.

The proposal is that it should sit alongside the existing city of culture title, which was held by Hull in 2017 and has been awarded to Coventry for Zozl.

They transform the aspirations of the people who live there; they nudge the self-image of the city into a bolder and more optimistic light.

Thousands of Aztec artifacts came to light during the digging of the Mexico city subway in the 1970s.

实用场景例句

Mexico City: 墨西哥城

the city of York: 约克特许市

The city turned out to welcome the victorious team home.: 全市居民倾城而出欢迎凯旋归来的队伍。

a City stockbroker: 伦敦商业区的证券经纪人

What is the City's reaction to the cut in interest rates?: 伦敦金融界对削减利率的反应如何？

It's not exactly fun city here is it?: 这里并不是好玩的地方，对吧？

a major city: 大城市

the country's capital city: 这个国家的首都

the city centre: 市中心

one of the world's most beautiful cities: 世界上最美的城市之一

...the city of Bologna.: 博洛尼亚市

...a busy city centre.: 繁忙的市中心

He traded a job in New York City for the life of a cowboy.: 他放弃了在纽约的工作,去过牛仔生活.

The city is justly famous for its nightclubs.: 这座城市因其夜总会而闻名,的确不无道理.

The little town mushroomed into a city.: 那座小镇迅速发展成一座城市.

The historic mansion was presented by the owner to the city, and is now kept up by the local authority.: 这幢有历史意义的宅邸是房主送给城市的, 现在由地方当局保养维修.

This company employs more people than any other outfit in the city.: 这家公司雇用的人员多于市里任何机构.

They succeeded in the conquest of that city.: 他们夺取了那城市.

A detailed street plan of the city is inserted in a corner of the area map.: 城市的街道详图印在该区地图的一个角上.

I live in the city, and he lives in the country.: 我住在城市, 他住在农村.

She landed up in a strange city without any money or friends.: 她到达一个陌生的城市,没有钱和朋友.

The traffic in the city was chaotic.: 这城市的交通糟透了.

We live too far from the city to get a strong television signal.: 我们住的地方离城里太远,不能收到清晰的电视图像.

You have to balance the advantages of living in a big city against the disadvantages.: 你必须权衡住在大城市的利与弊.

This bank has ten branches in the city.: 这家银行在城里有10家分行.

The enemy is closing in on the city.: 敌军正逼近这座城市.

Our troops joined with enemy forces just outside the city.: 我们的部队就在城外与敌人交火.

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