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单词 metroplex
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Definition of metroplex in English:

metroplex

noun ˈmɛtrəʊplɛksˈmetrəˌpleks
North American
  • A very large metropolitan area, especially one which is an aggregation of two or more cities.

    (尤指由两个或更多城市组成的)极大都会区

    the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His territory includes the northern and eastern parts of Texas and the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex.
    • During the summertime, ozone blights much of the metroplex.
    • We look forward to displaying the logo widely throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and to our international outlets.
    • That confrontation came on November 8, when a man stole a semi truck loaded with lumber in a suburb of Dallas and then led police on a three-hour chase throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.
    • Here in Texas, Wal-Mart is receiving 21 tagged products from eight suppliers at Distribution Center 6086 in Sanger and distributing to stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
    • No one was thrilled to see all those chemicals going up into the already questionable air we breathe here in the metroplex.
    • Cost of living is very reasonable here and we have all of the advantages of being near a metroplex in Dallas.
    • Some have called these amorphous implosions ‘Outer Cities’ or ‘Edge Cities’; others dub them technopoles, technoburbs, silicon landscapes, postsuburbia, metroplex.
    • He usually goes and drives around all over the metroplex, bored, in his pickup truck, looking for a shop to browse, a keeper to wave money at and then probably not buy anything.
    • Imagine turning down the focus dial in this sprawling metroplex to a five by six patch of dirt in front of a real estate office. All day people go in and out that front door on their way to buy and sell land, homes, and businesses.
    • A new tornado watch has just been issued right here, covering the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, southward down to just west of Houston, includes the Austin-San Antonio area.
    • Then, his creative batteries recharged, he returns to his red convertible, his teaching, and the sunny, sprawling Southern California metroplex he's inhabited for the last four decades.
    • This school is in the Los Angeles basin, the epicenter of Southern Californian car culture, the etymological origin of the term ‘smog,’ and a metroplex that arm-wrestles Houston every year for the crown of the most polluted city in the USA.
    • Not long, I'll bet, when it becomes apparent that the metroplex has not been brought back into compliance by these measures.
    • But money and land have always talked loudly in racing, and in the expansively named Grand Prairie, in the centre of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex where Lone Star Park was built, there is plenty of both.
    • In the United States the whole of the Central Belt would be instantly seen for what it is - a metroplex - a single urban organism, a single labour market.
    • But there's so much life tied to that compact space, so much to observe and absorb in those 200 yards, I often come away feeling as if I've taken a drive in the country rather than idled along a cable fence in the middle of a thriving metroplex.
    • My concern is that neither one brings in sizable audiences often - they have traffic, but nothing like a metroplex.

Origin

1960s: blend of metropolitan and complex.

Definition of metroplex in US English:

metroplex

nounˈmetrəˌpleks
North American
  • A very large metropolitan area, especially one which is an aggregation of two or more cities.

    (尤指由两个或更多城市组成的)极大都会区

    the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex
    Example sentencesExamples
    • My concern is that neither one brings in sizable audiences often - they have traffic, but nothing like a metroplex.
    • We look forward to displaying the logo widely throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and to our international outlets.
    • Cost of living is very reasonable here and we have all of the advantages of being near a metroplex in Dallas.
    • But there's so much life tied to that compact space, so much to observe and absorb in those 200 yards, I often come away feeling as if I've taken a drive in the country rather than idled along a cable fence in the middle of a thriving metroplex.
    • In the United States the whole of the Central Belt would be instantly seen for what it is - a metroplex - a single urban organism, a single labour market.
    • No one was thrilled to see all those chemicals going up into the already questionable air we breathe here in the metroplex.
    • He usually goes and drives around all over the metroplex, bored, in his pickup truck, looking for a shop to browse, a keeper to wave money at and then probably not buy anything.
    • A new tornado watch has just been issued right here, covering the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, southward down to just west of Houston, includes the Austin-San Antonio area.
    • Here in Texas, Wal-Mart is receiving 21 tagged products from eight suppliers at Distribution Center 6086 in Sanger and distributing to stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
    • But money and land have always talked loudly in racing, and in the expansively named Grand Prairie, in the centre of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex where Lone Star Park was built, there is plenty of both.
    • This school is in the Los Angeles basin, the epicenter of Southern Californian car culture, the etymological origin of the term ‘smog,’ and a metroplex that arm-wrestles Houston every year for the crown of the most polluted city in the USA.
    • Not long, I'll bet, when it becomes apparent that the metroplex has not been brought back into compliance by these measures.
    • During the summertime, ozone blights much of the metroplex.
    • Then, his creative batteries recharged, he returns to his red convertible, his teaching, and the sunny, sprawling Southern California metroplex he's inhabited for the last four decades.
    • Imagine turning down the focus dial in this sprawling metroplex to a five by six patch of dirt in front of a real estate office. All day people go in and out that front door on their way to buy and sell land, homes, and businesses.
    • That confrontation came on November 8, when a man stole a semi truck loaded with lumber in a suburb of Dallas and then led police on a three-hour chase throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.
    • His territory includes the northern and eastern parts of Texas and the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex.
    • Some have called these amorphous implosions ‘Outer Cities’ or ‘Edge Cities’; others dub them technopoles, technoburbs, silicon landscapes, postsuburbia, metroplex.

Origin

1960s: blend of metropolitan and complex.

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