We rail against urban sprawl, and rightly so.

我们反对城市扩张，这点绝对正确。

We're hearing of potentially 300 ISIS fighters still in the urban sprawl there.

我们听到300ISIS组织的战士仍在城市里。

There, ten local governments have formed a combined entity covering the urban and suburban sprawl.

在此地，十个地方政府组成了一个覆盖城市与郊区开发地的联合机构。

This burrowing owl lives in one of the biggest high-tech urban sprawls of North America.

这只穴鴞生活在北美最的高科技现代都市之一。

The urban sprawl of Los Angeles becomes visible some 100 kilometers away from the city itself.

洛杉矶的延伸地区在距离洛杉矶一百千米的地方就可以看到。

Urban sprawl is the way a city spreads into undeveloped land around it, often without planning permission.

城市扩张是指经计划审批，城市向开发的地区扩张。

This allows us to relieve the pressure for urban sprawl.

这使我们能够缓解城市扩张的压力。

One of the problems people associate with Houston is urban sprawl.

们与休斯顿联系在一起的问题之一是城市扩张。

Even here in beautiful Los Angeles we have problems of urban sprawl.

即使在美丽的洛杉矶，我们也面临着城市扩张的问题。

Aquatic turtles can almost always be found near the ponds and lakes of our urban sprawl.

帕普：在我们城市蔓延的池塘和湖泊附近，几乎总能找到水龟。

Since the 1940s house-building in Britain has been regulated by a system designed to prevent urban sprawl, something it has achieved spectacularly well.

自从20世纪40年代，英国就有专门的体系来控制建房以免城市扩张，部分成果显著。

But her book shines in its study of malls as symbols, and drivers, of American consumerism and urban sprawl.

但她的书在将购物中心作为美国消费主义和城市扩张的象征和驱动因素的研究中放异彩。

In cities with a lot of urban sprawl, people need cars, of course, to get from one place to another.

在城市蔓延的城市里，们当然需要汽车从一个地方到另一个地方。

Many cities have trouble, especially here in the western part of the U.S., with what is called " urban sprawl" .

许多城市都存在问题， 尤其是在美国西部，所谓的“城市蔓延” 。

She is the founder and president of the Megacities Project non-profit organization in Rio de Janeiroand knows a lot about urban sprawl in Brazilian cities.

她是里热内卢非盈利组织都市项目的创始和董事长，她很了解巴西城市扩张的状况。

However, public infrastructure did not keep pace with urban sprawl, causing massive congestion problems which now make commuting times far higher.

然而，城市交通的基础建设跟不上城市的扩张，导致量的交通堵塞，延长了通勤的时间。

They show the urban sprawl that's occurring in contemporary cities. Urban sprawl basically means that cities are spreading out, often in an uncontrolled way.

它们展示了当代城市中正在发生的城市扩张。城市蔓延基本上意味着城市正在以不受控制的方式扩散。

So urban sprawl (" urban" relating to the city) refers to the spreading out of the buildings and the homes over a very large area of land.

因此，城市蔓延（与城市相关的“城市”）是指建筑物和房屋在非常面积的土地上蔓延。

It becomes a self-fulfilling recipe for urban sprawl: a highway gets built to connect suburbs to a city center, which encourages more development along it, which necessitates even more highways when those get congested — and on and on and on.

这变成了一个自我实现的城市扩张配方：修建一条连接郊区和市中心的高速公路，这鼓励了沿线的更多发展，当这些公路变得拥挤时，就需要更多的高速公路——如此循环往复。

So we can, for example, house and employ more people on less land, minimizing the pressure on urban sprawl which competes then for land, for nature, while minimizing the distances people have to travel to meet their basic needs.

因此，例如，我们可以在更少的土地上安置和雇用更多的，最限度地减少城市扩张对土地和自然的竞争压力，同时最限度地减少们为满足其基本需求而必须走的距离。