One city official asked what this microbe could do to the metropolitan area.

一位城市官员问这个微生物对大城市会有什么影响。

Across the metropolitan area, ambitious building projects are moving forward.

在整个市区，雄心勃勃的建设项目正在向前推进。

In the adjacent Peoria, Ill., metropolitan area, per capita income was $39,965 in 2008.

而在邻近的伊利诺伊州皮奥里亚，2008年其大都市区域的人均收入为39965美元。

It struck the metropolitan area where almost a third of Haiti's nine million people live.

地震所发生的地方恰在大都市，而这里的人口却占着海地九百万总人口中的三分之一。

An asteroid 500 feet across could destroy a metropolitan area or spawn massive tsunamis.

500英尺直径的小行星可能毁灭整个大都市，或引发大规模海啸。