Traffic congestion is becoming a major problem for global cities.

交通拥堵正成为全球城市的主要问题。

On that scale our global city would be about the same size as roughly the continental United States.

在这个规模上，我们的全球城市面积大致相当于美国大陆的大小。

Although New York is home to the most opulent new-builds, extravagant offices are appearing in other global cities, too.

尽管纽约拥有最豪华的新建楼盘，但全球其它城市也出现了豪华的写字楼。

If your ambition is to build a globally relevant technology company, it helps to start it in a global city.

如果你的目标是建立一家全球相关的科技公司，那么在一个全球化的城市创办这家公司会有所帮助。

The C40 is a network of nearly 100 mayors representing the world's biggest global cities.

C40 是一个由近 100 位市长组成的网络，代表着世界上最大的全球城市。

So now let's visualize how big our hypothetical global city would have to be according to the different population densities that we have been discussing.

那么现在让我们想象一下，根据我们一直在讨论的不同人口密度，我们假设的全球城市应该有多大。

Jakarta is an enormously important and significant global city but it is not without problems that make it actually a not-so-favorable location for Indonesia's capital city in the 21st century.

雅加达是一座非常重要且意义重大的全球城市，但它并非没有问题，这个问题使得它在 21 世纪作为印度尼西亚的首都处于不太有利的位置。

But to get even more frightening and claustrophobic our global city with the same density seen within the Dharavi slum in Mumbai would be about the same size as New Jersey.

按下面这么做，会让人越来越感到幽闭恐惧症要发作，如果我们的全球城市与孟买达拉维贫民窟的人口密度相同，它的大小将会和新泽西州相同。

The 2021 Worldwide Cost of Living index tracks the cost of living across 173 global cities -- 40 more than last year -- and compares the price of more than 200 everyday products and services.

2021 年全球生活成本指数追踪了全球 173 个城市的生活成本——比去年增加了 40 个——并比较了 200 多种日常产品和服务的价格。