城市发展导致大片的乡村遭到毁坏。

Urban development has led to the ruination of vast areas of countryside.

《牛津词典》

看起来期待城市会飞速发展是有道理的。

It seems reasonable to expect rapid urban growth.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

策略就是整合这些城市的发展，以便形成更好的经济结构。

The strategy is to integrate the development of these cities for a better economic structure.

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The Market Revolution was driven, of course, by the growth of cities, which became market centers and manufacturing centers.

市场革命不断推进,当然,高速发展的城市是一大动力,它们正成为市场和工业中心

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the Ministry of, or the Department of Housing and Urban Development working on... various issues that way.

住房和城市发展部，研究……各种不同的问题。

肯尼迪学校 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

On the third page of the Politics where he remarks that every city or every polis exists by nature, and he goes on to infer from this Zoon Politikon that man is what he calls the zoon politikon, the political animal, the polis animal.

在《政治学》第三页,他谈到,每座城市或城邦是自然发展的存在，他并进而藉此推论,人类是他所谓的，即政治动物，城邦动物。

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