provincial cities

基本解释

Hotels in China's provincial cities make five-star establishments in Western capitals looked shabby.
中國省會城市的酒店讓西方的大都市的五星級酒店看起來破舊不堪。
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Dalian is one of the 15 sub-provincial cities, five cities with independent planning, one of the Northeast's third largest city.
大連是15個副省級城市、5個計劃單列市之一，東北第三大城市。
As its mayors will also be in charge of 36 of Spain's 50 provincial capital cities, the party will be faced with one of Spain's thorniest problems—overspending in city halls and regional capitals.
考慮到該黨的市長候選人也成功地執掌了西班牙50個省會城市中的36個，它也將麪對西班牙最棘手的難題之一——市政厛和區財政嚴重超支。

But the leaders of provincial cities are keen to broaden the focus of urban regeneration projects.
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In most provincial cities, by contrast, basic services and security have by now returned.
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In important provincial cities like Pompeii, sexual promiscuity was normal but, as these objects reveal, discreetly organised.
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