Many of Europe's metropolises are plagued by the doughnut phenomenon.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
大都市
metropolis
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
metropolis
02
large city
03
megacity
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 大都市 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 大都市 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
It's really difficult to survive in a big city like Tokyo without going into debt.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 大都市.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 大都市.
Directly before
- 的大都市2
- 习惯大都市1
- 在大都市1
- 由大都市1
Directly after
- 大都市的2
- 大都市里2
- 大都市饱受1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 大都市
What does 大都市 mean in Chinese?
大都市 (dàdūshì) means metropolis.
How do you pronounce 大都市?
大都市 is pronounced dàdūshì.
Is 大都市 an HSK word?
大都市 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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