urban
高中,四级,六级,考研,托福,1
英['ɜːb(ə)n]
|美['ɝbən]
日语:都会的な
法语:urbain
德语:urban
韩语:도시의
俄语:urbano
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
网络解释
adj. 城市的;住在都市的
n. (Urban)人名;(西)乌尔万;(斯洛伐)乌尔班;(德、俄、罗、匈、塞、波、捷、瑞典、意)乌尔班;(英)厄本;(法)于尔邦
中文词源
urban 城市的
来自拉丁语urbanus, 城市,罗马城。
双语例句
- 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。
- Urban planners in practice have to take account of many interest groups in society.
城市规划人员在实际工作中必须把社会各利益集团都考虑在内。
- Japan has advanced from a rural, feudal society to an urban, industrial power.
日本已从封建农业社会发展成一个城市化工业强国。
- Manchester still suffers from urban blight and unacceptable poverty.
曼彻斯特仍然受到城区脏乱和严重贫困问题的困扰。
- With bonfires outlawed in urban areas, gardeners must cart their refuse to a dump
由于市区明令禁止焚烧垃圾,园丁必须把垃圾运至垃圾场。
- But social workers say that this has created a culture of dependency, particularly in urban areas
然而社会工作者认为这使得人们普遍产生了依赖,尤其是在城市地区。
- School crime and violence cuts across urban, rural and suburban areas.
城市、乡村和郊区都出现了校园犯罪和校园暴力现象。
- Congress has tried dozens of approaches to revitalize decaying urban and rural areas.
国会已试行过数十种方法来重振正在走向衰败的城乡地区。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- They had not been exposed to most diseases common to urban populations
城市人口中多数常见的疾病他们都没有接触到。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- Public order is primarily an urban problem
社会治安主要是城市的问题。
- He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth
他解释说黄热病的流行恰好减缓了城市的扩张。
- Those wishing to study urban development have a ready-made example on their doorstep
那些想要研究城市发展的人眼下就有一个十分现成的范例。
- 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。
- It seems reasonable to expect rapid urban growth.
似乎有理由期望城市快速发展。
- His parents are trying to make up to him for the restrictions of urban living
他的父母正试图弥补他在城市生活的局限。
- The whole urban sprawl of Ankara contains over 2.6m people.
安卡拉整个肆意扩展的城区容纳了260多万人口。
- Most urban water supplies in the United States now contain fluoride in varying amounts.
现在美国大部分城市供水中都存在含量不一的氟化物。
- The Minister said the Urban Development Corporation was now transforming the area
部长声称城市开发公司如今正使该地区改头换面。
- 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。
- 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。
- For urban areas this approach was wholly inadequate
对于市区来说,这种办法根本不会奏效。
- Boston's traditional drab brick was slow to yield to the modern glass palaces of so many American urban areas.
波士顿传统而单调的砖石建筑并没有迅速被许多美国城市地区流行的现代玻璃大厦所取代。
- The spread of urban areas endangers wildlife.
扩大城市面积危害着野生物。
语源
early 17th cent.: from Latin urbanus, from urbs, urb-city