From the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights; the gleaming brass on the altar; nereids beneath the nitid moon.

从飞机上我们看见下面灯光闪烁的城市；祭坛上闪闪发光的铜器；闪烁的月亮下的涅瑞伊得斯女神。

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A newspaper in the American city of Philadelphia used the term in nineteen forty-nine. It called the most important police officials, top brass.

1949年美国费城一家报纸使用这个术语，将高级警员称为top brass。

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He inscribed "Birmingham city of a thousand trades" on the tip of a brass screw.

肖特还在一个黄铜螺丝钉的尖上雕刻了“伯明翰市，千行百业”的字样。

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But the dirt didn't dampen the spirits of the developers and city brass who'd called the press conference.

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Almost to a person, the performers who stepped up cited a special love for the city's artistic tradition -- from the Creole brass bands that invented jazz in the city's streets to the colorful Mardi Gras krewes whose elaborate floats and costumes are an emblem of the city's annual pre-Lent bacchanal.

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He'd get off the train at the city dumps, eat mulligan stew with the hoboes and forage for copper, brass and iron to sell as scrap.

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