| 释义 |
‖ Weltstadt, n.|ˈvɛltʃtat|
[Ger., f. Welt world + Stadt town.]
A city of international significance or cosmopolitan character; a cosmopolis.
1892W. James Let. 20 Dec. in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) II. 180 You go from one end of it to another in an ordinary afternoon walk, and yet you feel as if in a Weltstadt. 1914G. Bell Let. 29 Mar. (1927) I. 349 Bagdad has grown a ‘Weltstadt’! 1984N. Shepherd Wilfrid Israel ii. 17 Berlin..was now..demanding recognition, after the country's unification, as a Weltstadt like Paris and London. |