metropolitan

英 [metrə'pɒlɪt(ə)n] 美[,mɛtrə'pɑlɪtən]

None of the chain's stores in the Washington metropolitan area are to be closed.

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.

first, the earthquake would shake metropolitan areas including Seattle and Portland.

Twenty years ago, the Urban Land Institute defined the two types of cities that dominated the US landscape: smaller cities that operated around standard 9-5 business hours and large metropolitan areas that ran all 24 hours of the day.

The cloisters museum and gardens is a branch of the metropolitan museum of art devoted to the art and architecture of Europe in the middle ages.

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。

2. This is yet another slur on the integrity of the Metropolitan Police.: 这是对伦敦市警察局刚正廉明作风的又一次诽谤。

3. The Metropolitan Police say clear-up figures were improved.: 伦敦警方称破案率在过去有所提高。

5. Canadian French is different from the language of metropolitan France.: 加拿大的法语与法国本土的法语不相同.