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urban

英 ['ɜːb(ə)n] 美['ɝbən]

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近义词civic metropolitan citified municipal

反义词

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

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中文词源

urban 城市的

来自拉丁语urbanus, 城市，罗马城。

英英释意

1. relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area;: "urban sociology"; "urban development"

2. located in or characteristic of a city or city life;: "urban property owners"; "urban affairs"; "urban manners"

英文词源

urban: urban: [17] Urban comes from Latin urbānus, a derivative of urbs ‘city’ (a word of unknown origin). It was preceded into English by urbane [16], which is essentially the same word, but came via Old French urbaine. It was originally used as urban is now, but after urban arrived it gradually took the metaphorical path to ‘smooth, sophisticated’. The derivatives suburb and suburban date from the 14th and 17th centuries respectively; and suburbia was coined in the 1890s.
=> suburban, urbane
urban (adj.): "characteristic of city life, pertaining to cities or towns," 1610s (but rare before 1830s), from Latin urbanus "of or pertaining to a city or city life; in Rome," also "in city fashion, polished, refined, cultivated, courteous," but also sometimes "witty, facetious, bold, impudent;" as a noun, "city dweller," from urbs (genitive urbis) "city, walled town," of unknown origin.

The word gradually emerged in this sense as urbane became restricted to manners and styles of expression. In late 20c. American English gradually acquiring a suggestion of "African-American." Urban renewal, euphemistic for "slum clearance," is attested from 1955, American English. Urban sprawl recorded by 1958. Urban legend attested by 1980.
Urban: masc. proper name, from Latin urbanus "refined, courteous," literally "of a city" (see urban).

考试真题

SAT scores began dropping in 1963;today,on average,30% of students do not complete high school in four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor urban neighborhoods.

And most noticeable of all, there is the phenomenon of large urban and suburban high schools that have split up into smaller units of a few hundred, generally housed in the same grounds that once boasted thousands of students all marching to the same band.

A great variety of schools have sprung up in urban and suburban areas.

According to an urban design professor, it is difficult for city designers to foresee what happen in the future.

An urban food myth contends that if food spends just a few seconds on the floor, dirt and germs won't have much of a chance to contaminate it.

Between now and 2050, the urban population of Africa could triple.

Brent Ryan, who teaches urban design at MIT, says Songdo proves a universal principle.

Most urban Africans live in slums migrants are often not much better off than they were in the countryside.

Most urban Africans work for a small minority of the rich, who tend to be involved in either cronyish businesses or politics.

pigeons are often seen as dirty birds and an urban nuisance but they are just the latest in a long line of animals that have been found to have abilities to help humans.

That was actually Songdo, " says Jung Won Son, a professor of urban development at London's Bartlett School of Planning, "Part of the reason to shoot there is that it's new and nice.

Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.

While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are outweighed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers who need affordable food.

Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.

There is a large potential for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers, said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

The report focused on poor urban areas, where farms in or near cities supply relatively inexpensive food.

This nameless person pushed the human race over a historic threshold, for it was in that year that mankind became, for the first time in its history, a predominantly urban species.

Those factors are more than enough to make up for the squalor (肮脏), disease and spectacular poverty that those same migrants must often at first endure when they become urban dwellers

His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress.

For the first time in history, urban people outnumbered rural people

Modern urban life in rich countries is not well adapted to large families.

There isn't much violent crime in a small town like Green Ville, or at least not as much as in the large urban areas.

"There is a large potential for waste water agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers," said liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

Globally, urban populations are expected to double in the next 40 years, and an extra 2 billion people will need new places to live, as well as services and ways to move around their cities.

In many of these cities such as Denver, a diverse and vigorous economy attracted to the urban core has offered stable employment for residents.

Still, the track coach had offered me a walk-on spot, and I actually found the urban Atlanta campus a decent consolation prize after New York city.

Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like Math Counts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.

The persistent haze over many of our cities is a reminder of the polluted air that we breathe, over 80% of the world's urban population is breathing air that fails to meet World Health Organisation guidelines.

The right urban mix has propped up home occupancy, increased property values, and attracted significant investment capital.

Twenty years ago, the Urban Land Institute defined the two types of cities that dominated the US landscape: smaller cities that operated around standard 9-5 business hours and large metropolitan areas that ran all 24 hours of the day.

with the rise of a new concept in urban planning that aims to make life easier and more convenient, however, increasing popularity for urban areas that caused the real estate pushes, in major cities like San Francisco or New York, has inspired a type of f

In a further twist, birth rate is highest in poorly educated rural areas and lowest in highly educated urban areas.

The foods we eat—and when and how we eat them—are often unique to a particular culture or may even differ between rural and urban areas within one country.

They tolerate long, slow journeys to and from work on packed highways because they can work, entertain themselves or sleep on the ride, which encourages urban spread.

They visit it for a relaxing day off from the urban madness.

The gardens of the homeless which are in effect homeless gardens introduce from into an urban environment where it either didn’t exist or was not discernible as such.

We do not ruin urban conservation areas.

Under lobby pressure，George Osborne favours rural new-build against urban renovation and renewal.

Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.

The Boyle Family, on the other hand, stand for its dirty, urban aspect.

Under lobby pressure, George Osborne favours rural new-build against urban renovation and renewal.

实用场景例句

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

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。

She examines the interplay between changing gender divisions and urban change.: 她研究性别差异的变化和城市变化之间的相互影响.

The world urban population is rocketing upwards at a rate of 6.5 per cent per year.: 世界城市人口以每年6.5%的速度急速上升.

The spread of urban areas endangers wildlife.: 扩大城市面积危害着野生物.

Modern industry has been concentrated in a few urban centers.: 现代工业全集中在几个市中心.

Industrialization inevitably led to the expansion of the urban working class.: 工业化不可避免地导致了城市工人阶级人数的增多.

Once lovely countryside is absorbed by urban sprawl.: 这个曾经风光秀丽的乡村在城市的无规划扩展中消失了.

Urban development has led to the ruination of vast areas of countryside.: 城市发展导致大片的乡村遭到毁坏。

damage to both urban and rural environments: 对城乡环境的破坏

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。

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。

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。

There are problems of urban decay and gang violence.: 存在城市衰败和帮派暴力的问题。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

Waits sang about the boozy netherworld of urban America.: 韦茨歌唱美国都市纵酒豪饮的下层世界。

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。

Most of the population is an urban population.: 绝大多数人口都是城镇居民。

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