urbanize

英 ['ɜːb(ə)naɪz] 美
  • vt. 使都市化;使文雅
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urbanize (v.)
1640s, "to make more civil;" 1884 "to make into a city," from urban + -ize; in the latter sense from French urbaniser (1873). Related: Urbanized; urbanizing.
1. The government is trying to urbanize this area.
政府正在设法把这一地区城市化。

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2. For China to modernize its economy, it must further industrialize, and urbanize.
为了使经济现代化, 中国必须扩大工业化和城市化.

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