urbanize
🇺🇸
/ˈɚbəˌnaɪz/
🇬🇧
/'ɜ:bənaɪz/
verb
B2
To turn a countryside area into a city by building houses, roads, and services.
The government wants to urbanize the rural areas to create more living space for people.
政府希望将农村地区城市化，为人们创造更多生活空间。
B2
To make someone used to city life and its ways.
Living in the capital helped urbanize him and he learned to enjoy busy city life.
在首都生活帮助他适应城市生活，他学会了享受繁忙的城市生活。
translation
使城市化, 使适应城市生活
词形变化
Perfect
urbanized
Progressive
urbanizing
3rd Present
urbanizes
Past
urbanized