megacity

IPA/ˈmeɡəsɪti/
IPA/ˈmeɡəsɪti/

megacity — 名詞

  • megacitysingular
  • megacitiesplural

1. A city that has an extremely large number of residents, typically ten million or

1.名詞B2
釋義

巨型城市

人口超過一千萬的超大型都市

A city that has an extremely large number of residents, typically ten million or more, creating major challenges for housing, transport, and other services.

例句

Tokyo is a megacity with over thirty-seven million people in its wider metro area.

東京是一座巨型城市，其廣義都會區人口超過三千七百萬。

be + a megacity — classifying a city

The megacity of Mumbai has a train system that carries millions daily.

巨型城市孟買的鐵路系統每天運載數百萬人。

the megacity of [place name]

常見搭配
  • grow into a megacity
  • become a megacity
  • megacity population
  • megacity infrastructure
  • live in a megacity
  • megacity dweller
同義詞
  • metropolis

    A broad term for any large, important city; does not specify a population threshold and can refer to cities smaller than ten million.

  • conurbation

    A technical term for a continuous urban area formed when separate towns and cities grow together; may or may not reach megacity population.

  • megalopolis

    An even larger scale — a chain of connected metropolitan regions, such as the Boston–Washington corridor.

反義詞
  • village

    A small settlement in a rural area, far smaller than a megacity in both population and density.

  • small town

    A community with only a few thousand residents, lacking the scale and complexity of a megacity.

文法句型

megacity + of + place name

become / grow into + a megacity

用法筆記

Different organizations use slightly different population thresholds; the United Nations defines a megacity as a metropolitan area with more than ten million inhabitants. This term appears most often in geography, demography, and urban-planning discussions.

常見錯誤

Tokyo is a mega city with 37 million people.
Tokyo is a megacity with 37 million people.
The word is written as one word, not two.
I live in a megacity that called Shanghai.
I live in a megacity called Shanghai.
Use 'called' (past participle) instead of 'that called' to introduce the name.

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副詞搭配

常用片語

  • grow into a megacity
  • reach megacity status
  • megacity of [place name]

介系詞搭配

  • in a megacity
  • of a megacity
  • to a megacity