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1·First, the earthquake would shake metropolitan areas including Seattle and Portland.

首先，地震将撼动包括西雅图和波特兰在内的大都市地区。

2·The ability to exploit metroplex concepts that enable optimal use of runways at multiple airports within metropolitan areas, as a means of reducing air traffic congestion and delays.

发掘大都会观念的能力，使大都市区域内的多个机场的跑道得到最佳利用，以此作为减少空中交通拥堵和延误的一个手段。

3·The fastest growing metropolitan areas have been especially successful at taking advantage of this demand.

增长最快的大都市地区已在拿到外需的优势上取得成功。

4·Living standards are high, roughly comparable to those in prosperous French metropolitan areas.

同那些生活在法国的繁荣大都市的人比较，这里的生活水平很高。

5·The Houston metropolitan area is also noteworthy as being the largest in the United States without formal zoning restrictions on where and how people can build.

作为美国城市中，未对居民聚居地点及分布作出区域规划的最大都市，休斯顿城也因此闻名。

1·Most of this growth occurred in the suburbs rather than the inner cities, Mr Glaeser adds, with the more prosperous metropolitan areas and those with better educated residents growing especially fast.

这些增加的城市人口大多安家于城郊而不是市中心，格莱泽补充道，更繁华的都市地区和教育程度比较高的居民区，人口增加特别迅速。

2·TheLosAngelesLakers: A look at a map of the Los Angeles area shows that there are virtually no lakes in the metropolitan area. Why then the name "Lakers"?

洛杉矶湖人队如果打开洛杉矶一带的地图，在都市地区简直就没有湖，为什么他们有湖人队这个名字呢？

3·The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas reported that the per capita income in the two metropolitan statistical areas spanning the Valley ranked lowest and second lowest in the nation.

达拉斯联邦储备银行报道说在该地两个纳入统计范畴的都市的人均收入在全国分别是倒数第一和倒数第二。

4·His reputation was blasted regularly by the new metropolitan tastemakers.

他的声誉经常受到新都市时尚人物的抨击。

5·Demographers forecast that Memphis will soon become the nation's first majority black metropolitan region.

人口学家曾预言，孟菲斯将成为全国第一个以黑人为主的都市地区。

1·By contrast, he said, people in the New York metropolitan area can concentrate their efforts along the shorelines because the land rises quickly away from the coast.

他说，与之相比，纽约大城市的人们仅仅关注于海岸线地区就足够了，因为陆地从沿海岸线很快升高。

2·The GE Aviation team conceptualizes a 20-passenger aircraft that could reduce congestion at major metropolitan hubs by using community airports for point-to-point travel.

GE航空团队提出搭载20名乘客的航空器，通过为点对点旅行使用社区机场，它能减少主要大城市枢纽的拥堵状况。

3·Already in at least a dozen major metropolitan areas, women earn on average more than men.

起码在十几个主要的大城市区域里，妇女所挣已经比男性平均水平要高。

4·They attended a typical American metropolitan urology practice caring for conditions such as urinary incontinence, urinary tract infections, pelvic floor problems and kidney stones.

她们都前往典型的美国大城市诊所中的泌尿科就诊，前来就诊的原因有小便失禁、尿路感染、骨盆底问题和肾结石等。

5·SK Telecom also revealed it will start providing LTE services in Seoul from 2011 and will expand the service to the Seoul metropolitan area and six other cities by 2012.

SK电信还透露，他们将在2011年开始向汉城提供LTE服务，并将在2012之前把该项服务扩展到大城市区域和其他六个城市。

1·All of the poets we read, even that New England hayseed Robert Frost, begin their careers in metropolitan centers, primarily in London and New York.

我们阅读过的所有诗人，包括新英格兰的乡巴佬罗伯特·弗罗斯特，都在大都会的中心开始了他们的职业生涯，主要是在伦敦和纽约。

2·Two years ago, he signed over his art collection to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

两年前，他签字把他的艺术收藏品转让给了纽约大都会艺术博物馆。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·"There hasn't been much progress," says Nicholas Hartlep, an assistant professor at Metropolitan State University.

大都会州立大学助理教授尼古拉斯·哈特勒普说：“进展不大。”

4·Knowsley Metropolitan Borough supplied all its schools returns.

诺斯利大都会区提供了所有的学校报酬。

5·The app currently features a database for 12 of the larger metropolitan areas in the U.S., including Boston, New York, San Francisco, la, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, and Austin.

该应用的数据库目前只覆盖了美国境内的12个大都会，这其中包括，波士顿，纽约，旧金山，洛杉矶，芝加哥，西雅图，波特兰，还有奥斯汀。