| 释义 |
city-scape, cityscape|ˈsɪtɪskeɪp|
[f. city + scape n.3]
A view of a city; city scenery; the layout of a city.
1856Thackeray Let. 28 Dec. in H. Ritchie Lett. (1924) v. 82 A fairyland of frozen land, river and city-scape. 1952D. Hoffman Paul Bunyan v. 133 His attempts to describe cityscapes in terms of neo-Wordsworthian natural beauty. 1958Listener 9 Oct. 557/2 These mechanistic landscapes and cityscapes. 1959Archit. Rev. CXXV. 373/3 A preference for landscape over cityscape. 196020th Cent. Apr. 375 Private Fires is a cityscape, a rich Dickensian evocation of a decaying, badly-blitzed suburb. |