From an entomologist's point of view, it's a megalopolis.

虫学家的角度来看这就是个大都市。

Lagos is one of the fastest-growing megalopolises in the world.

拉哥斯是成长最快的特大城市之一。

This is the inner city of our great megalopolis, a neighborhood where the sun hardly ever shines.

这里是我们巨大都市的内城区这里几乎总是见不到阳光。

But a new survey suggests megalopolises aren't quite the homogenous ecosystems you might think.

但是一项最新的调查显示人口稠密的一线城市可不是想象中那样单调的生态系统。

New Zealand would become a high-rise megalopolis.

新西兰将成为一个高楼林立的大都市。

For speculators looking at property, the excess supply in smaller cities was all too evident, so they turned instead to the megalopolises.

对于把目光投向房地产的投言，小城市的房屋供给过剩太明显，所以他们转看向大城市。

Let's cut to the chase: the Milky Way galaxy is a vast, flat, disk-shaped collection of gas, dust, and stars — a sprawling megalopolis that's a mind-crushing 100,000 light years across and several thousand light years thick.

银河系是一个巨大的、扁平的、盘状的气体、尘埃和恒星的集合——一个庞大的大都市，直径达10万光年，厚达几千光年，令人叹为观止。

Experts say the stretch of West Africa's coastline from Abidjan to Lagos is on track to become the world's largest megalopolis, and could be home to half a billion people by the end of this century.

专家声称，阿比让到拉各斯的西非海岸线将成为世界上最大的大都汇，到本世纪末可能有5亿人居住在此。