metro

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met·ro /ˈmetrəʊ $ -troʊ/ noun (plural metros) [countable] TTTa railway system that runs under the ground below a city 地下铁道系统，地（下）铁（道） SYN American English subway, British English underground the Paris Metro 巴黎地铁系统 It’ll be quicker to go on the metro. 乘地铁更快。 a metro station 地铁站

Examples from the Corpus

metro• Here in London and the South-east, we already have metro and commuter railways which carry over 1,300 million passengers a year.• They moved into metro Phoenix where lantana and mulberry trees kept them fat and happy.• According to Culver, water mains in Baltimore and in most older, large metro areas are loaded with metal filings.• It will be at the busy 1.75-metre interchange between the Paris metro and the railway at Les Invalides.• By the next day the railways were paralysed and Paris bus stations, metro lines and post offices had been occupied.• The metro editor sent me to cover a soccer team pep rally at Columbia University.• From being a member of the foreign / national staff, I returned to metro as one of several assistant metro editors.metro station• And last year, a suspicious-looking briefcase at a metro station was taken care of by Sheila.• Fanaty throw bottles on to the pitch, fight at metro stations and stab one another.• The garden next door to the metro station is of the early 1970s by Otokar Kuca.• There is an escalator of only five steps at a Tokyo metro station which is a good example of a Tomason.Origin metro (1900-2000) French métro, from (chemin de fer) métropolitain “metropolitan railway”

met·ro nounChineseSyllable

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met‧ro /ˈmetrəʊ $ -troʊ/

noun (plural metros) [countable]

Date: 1900-2000
Language: French
Origin: métro, from (chemin de fer) métropolitain 'metropolitan railway'

a railway system that runs under the ground below a city:

the Paris Metro

It’ll be quicker to go on the metro.

a metro station

noun,

adjective

metro

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NAmE

/ˈmetroʊ/

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noun

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metros

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an underground train system, especially the one in Paris 地铁；（尤指）巴黎地铁

◆to travel on the metro / by metro 乘地铁旅行

◆the Paris Metro巴黎地铁

◆a metro station地铁站

<titled tranID="3" status="1">underground / subway / metro / tube</titled>

A city's underground railway/railroad system is usually called the underground (often the Underground) in BrE and the subway in NAmE. Speakers of BrE also use subway for systems in American cities and metro for systems in other European countries. The Metro is the name for the systems in Paris and Washington, D.C. London's system is often called the Tube. 城市的地铁系统在英式英语中通常称为 underground（常作 the Underground），在美式英语中为 subway。说英式英语的人指美国城市的地铁亦用 subway，而指其他欧洲国家的地铁则用 metro。the Metro 为巴黎和华盛顿市的地铁名称；伦敦的地铁通常称作 the Tube。