| 词汇 | megacity |
| 释义 | megacity noun[ C ] uk /ˈmeɡ.ə.sɪt.i/ us /ˈmeɡ.ə.sɪt̬.i/ a very large city, especially one with more than 10 million people living in it巨型城市（人口超过一千万的城市） Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general) aerotropolis anti-city anti-urban backwater boom town burgher Cantabrigian central city civic conurbation garden city multi-city municipal native place non-municipal open city retirement community small-town smoke urbanite megacity | Business Englishmegacity noun[ C ] (alsomega-city); (mega city)uk /ˈmeɡəˌsɪti/uspluralmegacities a very large city that has a population of more than 10 million people and that is often made of two or more urban areas that have grown so much that they are connected: Lagos is a mega-city that now stretches over roughly 300 square kilometres. London is likely to become one of the world's biggest megacities by 2020. Examples of megacitymegacity The lesson for rising megacities is that a central strategic authority is not essential for prosperous growth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The voluntary and personal hosting of tourists should improve the bad image of the megacity. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A single-tier municipality which is predominantly urban in nature may also be informally referred to as a megacity. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The announcement touched off vociferous public objections to what the media termed the megacity plan. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A characteristic issue of megacities is the difficulty in defining their outer limits and accurately estimating the populations. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A megacity can be a single metropolitan area or two or more metropolitan areas that converge. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The metropolitan area surpassed the 10 million mark in early 1930s, becoming the first megacity in human history. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Another list defines megacities as urban agglomerations instead of metropolitan areas. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The strategy of pay-as-you-go cafe has been touted as a solution for megacities, to comfortable and secure encounters, with uniform (equal share) and predictable cost. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Dramatic social changes have led to rapid urbanization and the emergence of megacities. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This system was only used for the first megacity election. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This region is often considered an emerging megacity. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Focusing on the problems of existing mega-cities is only a stop-gap solution. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Today in the new megacity, there are over 200 designated neighbourhoods. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Whereas megacity refers to any city of enormous size, a global city is one of enormous power or influence. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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