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词汇 urban
释义 urban
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈɜː.bən/ us /ˈɝː.bən/
B2
of or in a city or town: 城市的,城镇的
urban development城市发展
urban decay城市衰落
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rural
the urban sprawl of South Florida佛罗里达州南部杂乱无序的城市扩展
The council is committed to a programme of urban regeneration.政务委员会决心要开展城区改造项目。
Pollution has reached disturbingly high levels in some urban areas.在一些城市地区,污染已经达到令人不安的高水平。
The speaker gave an interesting presentation on urban transport.演讲者就城市交通发表了有趣的谈话。
The speed limit is strictly enforced on urban roads.城市道路上严格限速行驶。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general)
aerotropolis
anti-city
anti-urban
boom town
Brummie
burgher
Cantabrigian
central city
civic
conurbation
metropolitan
metropolitan elite
multi-city
municipal
native place
non-municipal
open city
small-town
smoke
urbanite

urban | American Dictionary


urban
adjective
us/ˈɜr·bən/
of or in a city or town:
Many Americans were leaving the farm for the promise of urban life.
Over 82% of Texans live in urban areas.

urban | Business English


urban
adjective
uk /ˈɜːbən/us
relating to towns and cities:
an urban area/centre/community
urban decay/development/planning
The high-speed train link is responsible for one of the biggest urban regeneration projects in the area.
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rural

Examples of urban


urban
The richness of interpretation shown here is a model for other urban studies.
The urban average income is reduced by 1.5 per cent at the end of the simulation period.
It actually turns out that urban real wage is reduced by less than 1 per cent.
Instead, they focused on the dominant urban health discourse surrounding reducing the cases of contagious diseases and improving hygiene.
These urban redevelopment measures caused the city to spread into surrounding areas.
In every chapter the narrative is given colour by local case studies from urban and rural congregations, brief vignettes of church leaders and telling incidents.
The same was not true, and was not supposed to be true, in urban areas where the need for employer housing was greater.
Access to the services of these systems was extremely limited, often to an urban population.
Possibly, this urban market absorbed part of the area's rural workforce, thereby lightening the pressure on those who sought access to arable land.
At the same time, urban life-styles and the acquisition of new rights and opportunities radically changed women's expectations and collective self-image.
In some respects, this is surprising, as urban planning had existed on an institutional basis only since the early twentieth century.
However, this process also encouraged elements within urban society to define themselves in opposition to rival 'communities' within their own walls.
Finally, it was not until the early 1960s that the growth pole did achieve slight development of industry in urban periphery.
Secondly, they actively carried out and published social surveys of urban poverty.
This is by no means just a phenomenon restricted to urban poverty.
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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