urban
英 [ˈɜːbən]
美 [ˈɜːrbən]
adj. 城市的; 都市的; 城镇的
Oxford 3000 / Collins.3 / BNC.1749 / COCA.1583
牛津词典
adj.
- 城市的;都市的;城镇的
connected with a town or city- damage to both urban and rural environments
对城乡环境的破坏 - urban areas
城镇地区 - urban life
城市生活 - urban development (= the process of building towns and cities or making them larger)
城市发展 - urban renewal/regeneration (= the process of improving the buildings, etc. in the poor parts of a town or city)
城市环境更新 - efforts to control urban sprawl (= the spread of city buildings into the countryside)
控制城市扩展的努力
- damage to both urban and rural environments
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 城市的;城镇的;都市的
Urbanmeans belonging to, or relating to, a town or city.- Most of the population is an urban population...
绝大多数人口都是城镇居民。 - Most urban areas are close to a park.
绝大多数城区附近都有公园。 - ...urban planning.
城市规划
- Most of the population is an urban population...
英英释义
adj
- located in or characteristic of a city or city life
- urban property owners
- urban affairs
- urban manners
- relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area
- urban sociology
- urban development
双语例句
- Wanton violence is now becoming a regular feature of urban life.
肆无忌惮的暴行在城市生活中越来越司空见惯。 - The government recognised there were problems in urban areas but these could never be an excuse for lawless behaviour.
政府承认市区存在问题,但决不可拿这些作为不法行为的借口。 - Urban dwellers often accept noise as part of city life
城市居民常将噪音当成城市生活的一部分。 - The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
在开罗不断扩张的都市版图内,这些被悉心照料的花园成了一片世外桃源。 - Mr Urban looks increasingly like someone fighting a rearguard action to keep their job.
厄本先生越来越像为了保住工作作最后一搏的那些人。 - But a concerted effort has begun to improve the quality of the urban air.
但是各方已经开始共同努力改善城镇空气质量。 - The government is spending billions of dollars on new urban rail projects.
政府正把数十亿元花在新城市铁路项目上。 - His analysis of urban use of agricultural land has been proved essentially correct
他有关城市占用农业用地的分析已被证明大体上是正确的。 - For urban areas this approach was wholly inadequate
对于市区来说,这种办法根本不会奏效。 - The undulating planes of the countryside provide relief from the hard horizontals and verticals of the urban scene.
乡村起伏不平的地势使人们摆脱了城市刻板的横平竖直景象。