【city】 - A-level备考词汇

city

UK:  ['sɪti]

US:  ['sɪti]

复数：cities  

n.

1.城市;市;都市

2.全市,全体市民

3.市容

4.伦敦商业中心区

5.【希史】城邦

1 . He began to look wiser than he really was. Like a fisherman in a city. With sea secrets in him.
他开始显现出比实际年龄更有智慧的模样，就像城市里的一个渔夫，怀着海洋的奥秘。

2 . Odysseus and Diomedes went into the city in disguise and stole it out of the temple of the city.
于是，奥德修斯就和狄俄墨得斯伪装入城，偷偷地将神像盗了出来。

3 . Also, if your patron wanted to run for a city office, your patron would expect you to be loyal and vote for him.
作为回报，如果庇护人要竞选官职，就会要求你投他一票。

4 . It is paltry consolation that such a strike, taking out a city or two, would not cause the devastation of a nuclear war between superpowers.
一个微不足道的安慰就是这样的袭击，能毁灭一两个城市，但不会引起超级大国之间的核战争的大毁灭。

5 . And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
凡不接待你们的，你们离开那城的时候，要把脚上的尘土跺下去，见证他们的不是。