urban blight

基本解释

Manchester still suffers from urban blight and unacceptable poverty.
曼彻斯特仍然受到城区脏乱和严重贫困问题的困扰。

The gang problem and urban blight is the biggest our country faces, And if our leaders took this proposal seriously, I would work for free, forever, to try to make it happen.
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Its global headquarters—a vast complex that includes a temple, a huge tabernacle, a genealogical library, a museum, an administrative complex and an apartment for the Prophet—has long protected downtown Salt Lake from the urban blight that is commonplace elsewhere.
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In a soft-spoken but fiercely candid way, he talks about the city's seemingly insurmountable problems--high crime and unemployment, miserable schools, government cronyism, urban blight, a continuing brain drain, relentless push-back against painful cuts and, above all, the debt, the mountainous debt.
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