New Orleans is the metropolis of the American South.

新奥尔良是美国南部的大都会。

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Even such a little garden as this was considered in the metropolis of Copenhagen as a great luxury.

即使是这样一个小花园，在哥本哈根也被认为是一种极大的奢侈。

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Coming to the metropolis a hundred or ninety years ago now entailed.

在90或100年之前走进这些现今遗留的大都市。

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IBM's top-ranked U.S.city is Houston - a sprawling metropolis on the Gulf Coast of Texas.

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The metropolis, well, it's a place of ambivalence, a place of promise and of threat, of exultation and also of dread.

都市是一个自相矛盾的地方，既有希望，又有威胁，喜悦与恐惧相伴而存在。

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Behind this environment are the great social processes of migration and modernization that produced that new urban form, the metropolis.

在这种环境背后是移民和现代化的重大社会进程,所带来的新的城市形式，即大都市。

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Both rebels and government forces are placing great importance on gaining control of the metropolis.

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The Athenian Metropolitan Authority studied satellite imagery of the metropolis and found almost 17, 000 privately-owned pools!

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And Los Angeles, in many ways, is not the metropolis of Mike Davis anymore.

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