Windy City

英 [ˈwɪndi ˈsɪti] 美 [ˈwɪndi ˈsɪti]

n.  风城(美国芝加哥市的别称)

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noun

  1. 风城(美国芝加哥市的别称)
    a name for the US city of Chicago

    双语例句

    1. It is The Windy City.
      这个别名就是“风城”。
    2. Language expert Barry Popick says on his website that Chicago was called a "windy city" because of the wind that blows off of Lake Michigan.
      语言学家巴里·泼皮克曾在他的主页上提到,芝加哥的“风城”之名取自密歇根湖吹来的风。
    3. You're not alone, but if you live in Chicago you're more unlikely to find it with residents of the Windy City the most stressed in the United states.
      可如果你生活在全美压力最大的多风城市芝加哥,恐怕你很难找到这种平衡!
    4. This friend later helped me edit and publish my first book of poems In the Windy City.
      白萩后来帮我编辑并出版了我的第一本诗集《在风城》。
    5. The windy city is also the most wired, according to a survey that showed people in Chicago are the most caffeinated in the United States.
      一项最新调查表明,具有“风城”之称的芝加哥同时也是美国“最兴奋的”城市,因为芝加哥人的***消费量居美国各大城市之首。
    6. Introduced to future husband Ian Gomez while performing in the windy city, the couple married in September of1993 and moved to Los Angeles shortly thereafter.
      在风城演出时,瓦达洛斯经人介绍认识了后来成为她丈夫的伊恩戈梅斯。两人于1993年9月结婚,随后不久搬到了洛杉矶。
    7. It stands on the flat, windy Salisbury Plain, near the city of Salisbury, England.
      他矗立在平坦的多风的靠近英国索尔兹伯里城的索尔兹伯里平原上。
    8. At least, it doesn't have one that has stuck in the way that, say, the "Big Apple" has to New York, the "City of Light" to Paris or the "Windy City" to Chicago.
      至少,不像“大苹果”纽约、“光明之城”巴黎、“风之城”芝加哥那样,有一个固定的昵称。
    9. If you reach Chicago by train and spend only an hour or two there you will feel the light wind off the lake which gives it the name "Windy City".
      如果你乘坐火车抵达芝加哥,即使只在那里逗留一两个小时,你也会感觉到从湖那边吹拂过来的阵阵清风,这就是芝加哥之所以叫做“风城”的缘故。