| 单词 | urbanization |
| 释义 | urbanization (once / 23782 pages) n If a skyscraper is blocking the view of farmland you once had from your house window, urbanization is happening. Urbanization is a word for becoming more like a city. When populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. This is called urbanization. Maybe tall apartment buildings spring up on what had been the outskirts of town, bringing more people there to live and work. Urbanization can also apply to how people live. For example, if they stop driving their cars and instead rely on public transportation, as most people in cities do, that's urbanization. WORD FAMILYurbanize: urbanization, urbanized, urbanizing+/suburban: suburbanest, suburbanise, suburbanite, suburbanize/suburbanise: suburbanised/suburbanite: suburbanites/suburbanize: suburbanized/urban: suburban, urbanise, urbanize/urbanise: urbanisation, urbanised USAGE EXAMPLESThe National Park Service is studying how mountain lions survive amid urbanization. Washington Times(Dec 15, 2016) About a third of the world's soils are degraded because of soil erosion, contamination, urbanization and other issues. Reuters(Dec 05, 2016) The authors propose that urbanization should avoid biodiversity hotspots — regions that are rich in endemic species and undergoing rapid habitat loss. Nature(Nov 29, 2016) 1n the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban Syn|Hyper urbanisation social process a process involved in the formation of groups of persons 2n the condition of being urbanized Syn|Hyper urbanisation condition, status a state at a particular time |
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