provincial cities

基本解释

Hotels in China's provincial cities make five-star establishments in Western capitals looked shabby.
中国省会城市的酒店让西方的大都市的五星级酒店看起来破旧不堪。
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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.
大连是15个副省级城市、5个计划单列市之一，东北第三大城市。
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.
考虑到该党的市长候选人也成功地执掌了西班牙50个省会城市中的36个，它也将面对西班牙最棘手的难题之一——市政厅和区财政严重超支。

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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