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megalopolis
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌmeɡ.əˈlɒp.əl.ɪs/ us /ˌmeɡ.əˈlɑː.pəl.ɪs/
an extremely large city or urban(= city) area where a lot of people live: 大都市;巨型城市
Today Shenzhen is a megalopolis of 13 million people. 如今，深圳是一个拥有1300万人口的大都市。
The landscape will just become one undifferentiated sprawling megalopolis.这片土地将只会变成一个毫无区别的、无序蔓延的巨型城市。
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metropolis
New Jersey is at the centercentre of the megalopolis, which extends from Boston to Washington.
South Florida is now a sprawling megalopolis with seven million residents and forty million annual tourists.
22 million people cram the megalopolis and vast swathes of the cityscape have been rebuilt sky-high.
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aerotropolis
anti-city
anti-urban
backwater
boom town
burgher
Cantabrigian
central city
civic
conurbation
garden city
multi-city
municipal
native place
non-municipal
open city
retirement community
small-town
smoke
urbanite
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