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edge city


.edge 'city
n[C]AmE
an area at the edge of a large city that has its own businesses, shops, offices etc, so that many of the people who used to live there while working in the large city now both live and work in the edge city
1. Each of the sides of the pyramid is 755 feet long, or about as long as two city blocks.
    每一边长755英尺,大约有两个街区那样长。

2. Even so, Mexico City continues to look good to the rural people who pour into the city.
    虽然如此,对拥入该城的乡村农民来说,墨西哥城仍是个好地方。

3. Electricity for the city would come from many sources, including the burning of trash from the city´s refuse collections.
    十亿人口城市的用电将取自多种来源,包括燃烧城市中收集的垃圾。

4. By the end of the next century, a single city may have more than 100 million inhabitants.
    到下个世纪末,一个城市的居民就可能超过一亿。

5. Billion city would have many levels, so that various transportation systems could work without interfering with each other.
    十亿人口城市有许多层平面,因此各种运输工具行驶时不会彼此干扰。

6. By building the city both deep into the ground and high above it, there would be room for far more people and everything else than there is in today´s two dimensional city.
    由于这种城市既建在地下深处,又造在地上高空中,所以能容纳的人和其它各种东西会比今天的平面城市多得多。

7. But the city endured.
    但是这个城市挺住了。

8. But until recently, the academic edge gained by participating in sports was thought to come from the increased self-confidence, the better mood, and the ability to concentrate that comes from burning off steam in exercise.
    但直到最近,人们还认为因参加体育运动而获得的学业优势来自于增强的自信、更好的心态,以及由运动时消耗体力所带来的集中注意力的能力。

9. Balanced at the edge of a narrow white platform, I am about to jump head first into a hot new phase of Japan's leisure boom: indoor sky diving, without a parachute.
    我在一块窄窄的白色跳板前端站稳,准备头朝下跳出去。这一跳将跳进日本休闲热中的一个崭新的热门项目:室内蹦极跳,不带降落伞的。

10. Whenever the Italian city-states were at war with each other,
    每次意大利各城邦之间打伏,

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