核心畫面

Think of two photographs of the same place, taken fifty years apart. In the first there are fields, a track and a few low roofs. In the second there are apartment blocks, a supermarket, traffic lights and a station. The word is about the second photograph, and about the fact that it used to be the first one. Both meanings read the same pair of photographs, only from different sides: one looks at what now stands on the ground, and the other looks at where the people in the picture now live and work.

可以想成同一個地方、相隔五十年的兩張照片。前一張有田、有小路、有幾間矮房子。後一張是大樓、超市、紅綠燈和車站。這個字更多收起可以想成同一個地方、相隔五十年的兩張照片。前一張有田、有小路、有幾間矮房子。後一張是大樓、超市、紅綠燈和車站。這個字講的是後面那張照片,而且重點在於它以前是前面那張。兩個意思都在看同一組照片,只是角度不同:一個在看地上蓋了什麼,一個在看照片裡的人現在住在哪裡、在哪裡工作。

Two branches

地被蓋滿了

這一組看的是照片裡的地面:房子、店面、工廠、辦公室和道路把空地填滿了。

adjective · C1

Used about a country, a region or an area that has become covered with houses, shops, factories, offices and roads instead of open land.

都市化的(地區)

人搬進城裡了

同一組照片,鏡頭從地面移到人身上:不是算蓋了幾棟房子,而是算多少人已經離開農村,在城鎮生活和工作。

adjective · C1

Used about a society or a population in which most people now live and work in towns and cities rather than in the countryside.

都市化的(社會)