Mid-levelsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Mid-Levels

1. An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
   • 1993, Chris Pomery, “Sights and Sounds on the Streets of the City”, in Hong Kong in Depth: An A-Z Guide‎, Odyssey, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:

     The third, Sir George Bonham (1848-54), fared somewhat better with Bonham Strand in Central and Bonham Rd which carved open the Mid-Levels.

   • 1993 October 18, Daniela Deane, “FOREIGN JOURNAL”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 September 2023‎:

     The $29 million people mover, which snakes its way through some of the oldest sections of Hong Kong, connects the British territory's Central business district with the densely populated Mid-Levels residential area, which, while close to Central, is up a very steep hill from it.
     Mid-Levels, Hong Kong's fastest growing area, sprang from a sleepy neighborhood of individual houses in the 1950s to a concrete jungle now, packed with 30-story apartment blocks and a population of some 60,000 people.

   • 2009, Jessica Bellas, “Hong Kong Fire Service Rescues Dog from Cliff Side”, in Maotai, Mooncakes & Monks: Misadventures in Hong Kong & China‎, Hong Kong: TAMCO Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 14:

     On the morning of March 25, 2006, all the available reporters in Hong Kong scurried to my Mid-Levels neighborhood to photograph my dog being dramatically rescued from the top of a tree. […]
     Jade and I proceeded outside for our morning dog walk on the trails behind my Mid-Levels apartment.

   • 2015 May 26, Emma Batha, “Filipina maid photographs "modern slavery" in Hong Kong”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 29 December 2024:

     Bacani, who comes from a village in Nueva Vizcaya, moved to Hong Kong when she was 19, giving up her nursing studies so she could help pay for her younger brother and sister's schooling.
     For the last decade she has worked alongside her mother for an Australian-Chinese businesswoman in the affluent Mid-Levels neighbourhood on Hong Kong island.

   • 2019 April 17, Marcelle Sussman Fischler, “House Hunting in … Hong Kong”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 April 2019, Real Estate‎:

     This two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom apartment is in the western section of Mid-Levels, an affluent residential area built into the northern slope of Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong.

   • 2021 March 15, Candice Chau, “Covid-19: 2 cases found after almost 3,500 people tested in Mid-Levels ‘ambush’ lockdowns”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎, archived from the original on 03 March 2024, Hong Kong:

     Following the outbreak at the Ursus Fitness gym in Sai Ying Pun, the government announced two ambush lockdowns on Saturday, and another on Sunday, in the Mid-Levels district.

   • 2024 February 17, Diana Pang, “Foreign influence Part 4.: From wharves to wealth – how trade & commerce shaped Hong Kong’s street names”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎, archived from the original on 17 February 2024, Hong Kong:

     While Dent & Co. left little mark in that particular area, Glenealy (己連拿利) in Mid-Levels is named after the residence of Dent & Co.’s partner.

Further reading

• “Mid-Levels”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.