大型购物中心和大超市数量激增，而许多比较老式的城市购物区则衰落了。
Malls and big-box stores have proliferated, while many older urban shopping districts have declined.
她走到城市中心的尽头，在那里，她看到有一条土路通向一个长满草的小山丘。
She walks to the end of the city center where she sees a dirt path that leads up a grassy hill.
“老爱丽丝的历史”这一章生动地描述了从乡村和农村来到城市工业中心的早期工人的情况。
The chapter "Old Alice's History" brilliantly dramatizes the situation of that early generation of workers brought from the villages and the countryside to the urban industrial centers.
《老艾斯的历史》这一章生动地描述了早期一代工人从农村被带到城市工业中心的情况。
The chapter "Old Aice's History" brilliantly dramatizes the situation of that early generation of workers brought from the villages and the countryside to the urban industrial centers.
从位于圣塔莫尼卡山脉的艺术博物馆——盖蒂中心俯瞰这座城市，你会发现太平洋的景色因雾霾而一片模糊。
Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center, an art museum in the Santa Monica Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurred by the haze.
在发达国家，随着越来越多的人搬到城市中心，汽车使用量正在下降，而年轻人更倾向于选择其他出行方式。
Across the developed world, car use is in decline as more people move to city centres, while young people especially are opting for other means of travel.
在整个地区中，乌鲁克的规模最大，远远超过了其它居民点，这表明它是这个地区的中心，是一个真正的城市。
Uruk's dominant size in the entire region, far surpassing that of other settlements, indicates that it was a regional center and a true city.
该增长的很大一部分发生在乌鲁克自身，它成为了一个真正的城市中心，被一系列次级定居点环绕。
A large part of that increase took place in Uruk itself, which became a real urban center surrounded by a set of secondary settlements.
他们想要的市场提供的财富，要没有竞争激烈又不断变化的社会；复杂的处理问题；城市中心的主导地位；以及随之而来的独立性的丧失。
They wanted the wealth that the market offered without the competitive, changing society; the complex dealing; the dominance of urban centers; and the loss of independence that came with it.
通常这意味着将人们与其他城市机构提供的服务联系起来，如学校、医院、住房、药物治疗中心。
Often that means hooking people up with services offered by other city agencies, such as schools, hospitals, housing, drug treatment centers.
由于该城市是区域的中心，城市社会中的一小部分人开始专门从事非农业工作。
A small segment of the urban society started to specialize in nonagricultural tasks as a result of the city's role as a regional center.
这个巨大钢件在不久之后将被置于一个大型燃汽涡轮机的中心，该涡轮机发电量足可以满足一个小城市的需要。
This enormous hunk of steel will soon be at the centre of a gas turbine big enough to meet the electricity needs of a small city.
正在举行会议的贝拉中心，看起来跟这个城市的外面一样的巨大和人口稠密。
The Bella Centre, where the conference is being held, seems as large and populous as the city outside.
在城市规划中，开发公园和体育设施比开发购物中心更重要，让人们可以消磨时间。
In urban plannings, it is more important to develop public parks and sports facilities than shopping centers for people to kill time.
另一个很好的例子是会议中心，它通常配备有酒店和宽敞的会议场地，以吸引人们来这座城市进行主要商务会议和各种活动。
Another really good example is convention center which typically has a hotel and large meeting spaces to draw visitors to the city for major business conferences and events.
这座城市的大部分景观都可以在北端的一个5平方英里的区域内看到，这块区域是该市的历史中心。
Most of the city's sights can be seen within a five-square-mile area in the North End, the historic center of the city.
去年，谢尔比维尔城市服务中心收集的所有垃圾都被焚化了。
Last year all refuse collected by Shelbyville city services was incinerated.
圣安东尼奥的河蜿蜒穿过商业区的中心；而河边的步行街，也就是PascodelRio，是这座城市最受欢迎的景点。
The river in San Antonio winds through the middle of the business district, and the River Walk, or Pasco del Rio, is the city's most popular attraction.
这座城市本应是全球各地企业的中心，在这里工作的人来自世界各地。
The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies, with employees from all over the world.
从现在到明年夏天之间，这个城市肯定会成为许多积极的民主党人的中心。
Between now and next summer, the city is sure to be a hub for a lot of energetic Democrats.
这是除纽约以外我所呆过的居民实际住在市中心的第一座美国城市。
This was, New York apart, the first American city I had ever been in where people actually lived downtown.
到2050年，将有近80%的地球人口生活在城市中心地区。
By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the Earth's population will live in urban centers.
路易斯不得不坐出租车去离市中心很远的城市车库。
Louis had to take a taxi to the city garage far from the center of town.
它们位于城市中心地带，这将大大减少将视频运送到消费者手中所需的运输量。
Situated in the heart of urban centres, they would drastically reduce the amount of transportation required to bring food to consumers.
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.
由于人口不断从城市向郊区迁移，市中心或商业区的企业主经历了一些经济损失。
Business owners in the city centers or the downtown areas have experienced some financial losses, because of a steady movement of people out of the cities and into the suburbs.
这些城市的政治和经济生活以寺庙为中心，但现在看来，这些城市很可能在早期就有世俗统治者。
The political and economic life of the cities was centered on their temples, but it now seems probable that the cities had secular rulers from earliest times.
十八小时城市结合了二十四小时城市和朝九晚五城市的优势，促使了城市中心的复苏。
18-hour cities combine the best of 24-hour and 9-5 cities, which contributes to downtown revitalization.
那么，城市规划者们从这些购物中心的成功案例中学到了什么呢？
So what have city planners learned about making these malls succeed?
他们指出，如果没有电梯，城市里就没有市中心的摩天大楼或高楼大厦。
Without the elevator, they point out, there could be no downtown skyscrapers or tall buildings in cities.
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