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1·Public order is primarily an urban problem.

公共秩序主要是一种城市问题。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·It seems reasonable to expect rapid urban growth.

看起来期待城市会飞速发展是有道理的。

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3·For a small state it has a large urban population.

作为一个小州，其城市人口算是很多了。

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4·He spoke angrily about the condition of the urban poor.

他愤怒地谈论城市贫民的处境。

—— 《牛津词典》

5·Waits sang about the boozy netherworld of urban America.

韦兹唱到美国城市中充斥着酗酒及犯罪的危险地区。

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

半世纪以来，合理的城乡规划使英国得以保留令其他国家羡慕的乡村协调性，同时还允许低密度的城镇人口。

2·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.

虽然这种做法给许多人带来了严重的健康风险，但对于需要便宜食品的贫穷城镇农民和消费者们来说，比起这些风险，他们所获得的社会和经济利益更有价值。

3·However, there is an even more insidious kind of pollution that particularly affects urban areas and invades our daily lives, and that is noise.

但是，还有一种更加隐蔽有害的污染，它专门影响城镇地区，侵袭我们的日常生活，那就是噪音。

4·It is one's hukou status, meaning if you have an urban or a rural hukou, that really dictates what kind of services that you have access to.

一个人的户口状态意味着你有一个城镇户口或者一个农村户口，这很大程度上限制了你能享受到的资源的种类。

5·As urban dwellers, they are too proud to compete with migrant farmers for dirty jobs.

做为城镇居民的自豪感让他们不屑与进城农民工一起干肮脏活。

1·There are problems of urban decay and gang violence.

存在都市衰败和黑帮暴力问题。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·I think those are great attractions for anyone, you know, looking to get into urban agriculture.

我认为那些对，你知道的，所有想进入都市农业的人都很有吸引力。

3·While cryonics is a genuine field of research, the claim that Disney went in for it is an urban myth.

因为人体冷冻法是一个全新的研究领域，说迪斯尼冷冻了自己的声称是一个都市神话。

4·The second theory—possibly an urban myth—is that concerned parents in several states proposed bans on metal lunch boxes, claiming kids were using them as "weapons" to hit one another.

第二种理论——很可能是一个荒诞的都市说法——几个州担忧的父母提议禁止使用金属午餐盒，声称孩子们会把它们当作“武器“来互相攻击。

5·Dorothee Imbert pointed to urban farming.

多罗斯·伊伯特指出了都市农业。

1·The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.

那些打理得非常整洁的花园是杂乱扩张的开罗市区中的一片绿洲。

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2·With bonfires outlawed in urban areas, gardeners must cart their refuse to a dump.

市区禁止户外焚烧垃圾，园林工人必须用推车把垃圾运到垃圾场。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·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.

尽管如此，田径教练还是给了我一个实地考察的机会。事实上，与纽约市相比，我发现亚特兰大市区的校园还不错。

4·She makes her home in urban Ghana where, as she describes, "Any surface water is an open sewage stream."

正如她所说，她的家在加纳市区，“在那里，任何地表水都是开源污水流。”

5·Scientists have long known that bird songs vary in different settings and that urban songbirds in particular sing at a higher pitch.

科学家们早就知道，鸟类在不同的环境下的鸣叫是不同的，而市区的鸟是以更高的音调鸣叫。

1·Her analysis of the contrast between us suburban schools, usually good, and urban schools, typically bad, struck me as fair, but I must take exception to some of the assertions in her article.

她对美国郊区学校(通常教育质量高)与城里学校(通常教育质量低)所做的公正分析给我留下了深刻印象，但对文中的某些论断我必须提出反对意见。

2·Whether due to distraction or suspicion, my urban hellos were answered far less often than my rural ones.

不知是因为心情不好，还是因为疑心太重，我在城里打招呼得到的回应，远远少于农村。

3·But women [now] are finding partners in urban areas and not going back.

但是女性们(现在)都在城里找到自己的另一半，并留在城里。

4·In rural areas, about 66.9% questioned believe that they would have a better life if they had been born and grown up in urban areas, and the rate reaches 77.2% among those aged 18-30.

农村受访者中，66.9%的人认为，如果他们在城里出生和成长，生活会比现在好，在18岁- 30岁的年轻人中，这一比例更是达到了77.2%。

5·Cats, dogs, and humans walking near a mockingbird nest, usually in urban and suburban areas, can expect a close encounter with an angry parent and even a sharp peck.

通常在城里或郊区，走近嘲鸟巢的猫、狗、和人可能遭到愤怒的嘲鸟夫妇围攻，甚至被啄一尖嘴。