Sprawling urban conglomerations entail huge costs. Think of the infrastructure for roads, water, sewerage and public transportation. 不断蔓延的城市集群会产生巨大成本,如道路、供水和污水设施以及公共交通等基础设施的成本,也会阻碍提高生产率和促进创新。
The pattern, with some variations, was repeated elsewhere, including in Japan and South Korea, where people were pushed by poverty and pulled by ambition to work in vast urban conglomerations. 这种模式,带着些许差异,在日本和韩国等其它地区得到复制:在贫穷的推动和志向的牵引下,人们投身于城市里数目庞大的集团公司中去工作。
Those particles attracted and integrated with each other to form bigger and bigger conglomerations that gradually evolved into galaxies, fixed stars, and planets. 其微粒相互吸引、融合,形成越来越大的团块,逐步演化为星系、恒星、行星。
Most do not provide dividends but have become conglomerations of businesses. 大多数企业不支付股息,但都已成为综合性大型企业。
Debates over the plurality of worlds assumed galactic proportions, specifically addressing whether Earth's home galaxy, the Milky Way, wasonlyone of many such conglomerations of stars. 关于多重世界的争论假设星系均匀分布,特别是将地球所在星系,银河系,只是众多恒星聚集体之一。
On this background of economic globalization, the international competition will gradually develop to the competition of the urban agglomerations, which will be focused on the capabilities of economic resources conglomerations and integration. 在这种经济全球化背景下的国家间的竞争正演变为城市群间的竞争,而城市群经济竞争力常常取决于城市群的经济资源聚集与整合能力。