词族 · urbanize
英语词源
- 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.
权威例句
- 1. The government is trying to urbanize this area.
- 政府正在设法把这一地区城市化。
- 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.