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"Urbanization" is the big, ongoing process of more and more people moving from the countryside into cities, and cities growing bigger and more crowded as a result. You'll meet this word a lot in geography, economics, and news about developing countries, where huge numbers of people move to cities looking for jobs. It describes a large-scale, long-term social change - not something happening to just one person or one building.
都市化
組成"Urban" (relating to cities, from Latin "urbs," a city) + "-ization" (the process of becoming something) - so, "the process of becoming city-like."
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
urbanizationnoun
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The process of the formation and growth of cities.
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The change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas.
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The proportion of a region's population that live in towns and cities; the rate at which this proportion is growing.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。