urbanize

🇺🇸 /ˈɚbəˌnaɪz/ 🇬🇧 /'ɜ:bənaɪz/
詞頻
難度
標籤 RARE
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.

政府希望將農村地區城市化,為人們創造更多生活空間。

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.

在首都生活幫助他適應城市生活,他學會了享受繁忙的城市生活。

translation

v. 使城市化, 使適應城市生活

詞形變化

Perfect urbanized
Progressive urbanizing
3rd Present urbanizes
Past urbanized