n. 城市, 市
When one of my wife’s relations, who comes here regularly, found out that we’d been there, he whispered to us, only half-joking: “Shh—don’t tell anyone!” The locals are a relaxed and friendly bunch—a lot of them told us that it’s like what Waiheke Island (now in effect a suburb of Auckland) was in the 1970s when it was a commune of artists and people wanting to escape the city.
四级 · CET-4 2026年6月 第1套
Great Barrier Island is compared to another island which attracted a lot of artists and people who wished to stay away from city life half a century ago.
四级 · CET-4 2026年6月 第1套
The channel allows users to ask people in their current city the types of practical questions that a tourist would unlikely need to ask.
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They are borderless, mostly self-employed remote workers who interact with cities in a way that's entirely different from a tourist, but still doesn't quite reach the status of resident.
六级 · CET-6 2026年6月 第1套
And in a rapidly urbanising world, where a major city in Asia increasingly offers the same comforts as one in Europe, many people are reaching the realisation they don't need to stay in one place.
六级 · CET-6 2026年6月 第1套