人们修整土地、扩张城市及修建水坝等活动，使我们生活的那些流域发生了很大的变化，同时也会改变洪水对自然环境的影响。
We make a lot of changes to our catchments including land clearing, urban development, DAMS, and so on that can change the impact of a flood on the natural environment.
然而，公共基础设施并没有跟上城市扩张的步伐，这造成了大规模的交通拥堵，也大大拉长了通勤时间。
However, public infrastructure did not keep pace with urban sprawl, causing massive congestion problems which now make commuting times far higher.
随着城市扩张，许多人低价出售他们在农村的旧房子，然后搬进城市里的新公寓。
With the expansion of cities, many people sell off their old houses in the countryside and move into new flats in cities.
城市地区的快速扩张将对生物多样性热点地区和那些城市地区的碳排放产生巨大影响。
The rapid expansion of urban areas will have a huge impact on biodiversity hotspots and on carbon emissions in those urban areas.
今天的牛津是一个繁忙的大城市，但市中心的古老大学建筑在很大程度上没有受到城市扩张的影响。
Today Oxford is a large, busy city, but the ancient university buildings in the centre have remained largely untouched by the urban expansion.
似乎世界上所有的大城市都在不断地扩张。
It seems that all the big cities around the world are still endlessly expanding.
殖民地航运业的扩张反过来又加速了城市化进程，因为殖民地需要集中的码头、仓库和修理铺。
The expansion of colonial shipping in turn accelerated urbanization by creating a need for centralized docks, warehouses, and repair shops in the colonies.
它正在策划向城市甚至是周围其他人不敢去的地方扩张。
It's also plotting an expansion into cities, even neighborhoods where others dare not go.
城市扩张大部分无计划，因此无法为基础设施建设吸收公众资源。
Urban expansion has been largely unplanned and thus unable to draw on public resources for infrastructure.
随着越来越多的国家变得更加富有，城市和人口的扩张，人们扔掉更多的垃圾。
As countries get richer and more urban and their populations expand, they throw away ever more stuff.
今天，广州拥有71公里长的地铁，大部分于最近三年投入运行。但是，城市不断扩张出来的地区很多还是距离最近的地铁站很远。
Today, Guangzhou has 71 miles of subway lines, most of them opened in the last three years, and yet large areas of the ever-expanding city are still distant from the nearest subway stop.
在接下来的二十年里，全世界将目睹一次极其快速的城市扩张，其速度和规模史无前例。
Over the next two decades, the world will see a burst of urban expansion at a speed and on a scale never before witnessed in human history.
这样的人口扩张使得城市环境肮脏不堪，居住条件极为恶劣。
Such expansion created a nasty urban environment in which living conditions were appalling.
麦基尔认为，该城市的扩张前景堪忧。
而郊区，作为城市扩张的一种方式将不会被耗尽。
The suburbs, which stand in the way of expanding urban areas, aren't going away.
中国城市的扩张确实有它的道理。
应对气候变化和能源安全的双重挑战，也有助于使该地区快速扩张的城市更适宜居住。
Addressing the twin challenges of climate change and energy security will also help make the region's rapidly growing cities more livable.
非法行为最高法院采取的一系列干预措施，揭示了无计划城市扩张的程度。
Illegality. A series of interventions by the Supreme Court has revealed the extent of unplanned urban sprawl.
阻止城市的扩张实际上也是不可能的。
It's also not really possible to discourage the growth of cities.
随着首尔人口不断增长，而城市又受地理条件限制无法扩张，多出来的人该往那儿搁啊？
With Seoul's population burgeoning and the city limits restrained by geography, where to put everyone?
另一个问题就是城市的扩张。
了解到这个城市正在扩张。当时我手中拿着相机。
Getting to know the city became a process of wandering in ever larger concentric circles, camera in hand.
近几年中国城市的迅速向外扩张已吞并了不少像荷花这样的乡村，二十年前这些尚是一望无垠的稻田。
The rapid outward expansion of Chinese cities in recent years has swallowed many villages like He Hua, which 20 years ago was an expanse of paddy fields.
她说，现在是“接受城市扩张的现实并做好准备，不再讨论它是好、是坏、还是有什么别的意义”的时候了。
It's time, she says, to "accept the reality of urban expansion-to set aside the debate about whether it's good, bad, or otherwise, and to get ready."
在过去三十年，东亚的城市扩张和快速工业化导致能源消费量增加了两倍。
Growing cities and rapid industrialization has seen a trebling of energy consumption in East Asia over the past 30 years.
一个不断扩张的城市。沈阳辽宁，现在已经有超过800万人。
The expanding cityscape of Shenyang, Liaoning Province, now home to more than 8 million people.
2006年6月25日—人造卫星拍摄的全世界城市图像发出的信息可以加上这样一个标题：城市的扩张。
June 21, 2006-satellite images of cities around the world tell a story that could be titled, Urban Sprawl.
然而，Annez说，国家不必刻意阻止城市的扩张。
But countries shouldn't necessarily seek to stop the growth of cities, says Annez.
然而，Annez说，国家不必刻意阻止城市的扩张。
But countries shouldn't necessarily seek to stop the growth of cities, says Annez.
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