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urban

/ur-buhn/US // ˈɜr bən //UK // (ˈɜːbən) //

城市,都市,市区,城市的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or designating a city or town: densely populated urban areas.
    • : living, located, or taking place in a city: urban rooftop gardening.
    • : characteristic of or accustomed to cities; citified: He’s an urban type—I can’t picture him enjoying a whole week at our cabin in the woods.
    • : of or relating to the experience, lifestyle, or culture of African Americans living in economically depressed inner-city neighborhoods: Their first album had a hard, urban vibe.
    • : Offensive.: a drug problem that particularly impacts the urban residents in this small town.

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Examples

  • Impact-focused OZ investment is not restricted to urban communities.

  • In fact, human-food sources accounted for as much as 60 to 75 percent of what urban coyotes ate.

  • A large chunk of the fine particulate matter pollution in urban areas—ranging from 20 to 70 percent—is secondary organic aerosols, or SOAs.

  • What’s more, these districts are similar in that they are relatively racially diverse and urban, which partly explains progressives’ success here.

  • For instance, there’s Margaret Anadu, head of Goldman Sachs’s urban investment group.

  • We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.

  • In the wee hours of Christmas morning, a flight deal was shared in an exclusive Facebook group for urban travelers.

  • Young, hip, urban millennials are using tools like Instagram to become one of the fastest growing travel markets.

  • His New Deal Coalition brought together Southerners, Northern ethnic minorities, and urban blacks under the same banner.

  • The former provides entrepreneurial training and educational programs for youths from low-income urban areas around the world.

  • Urban property and lands were assessed at values far beyond those at which the owners truly estimated them.

  • Today in the cities, and particularly in the quickly growing urban areas, there are different conditions.

  • But what, in the name of the great prince, is the meaning of her declining the urban expedition?

  • I could find no solution, unless it be that instinctive belief of a city-bred civilization that all joys are urban.

  • At sight of him Urban smiled again, and would have spoken; for he recognized the great Duke.