:the basic equipment and structures (such as roads and bridges) that are needed for a country, region, or organization to function properly基础设施(如道路和桥梁等)
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More money is needed to save the crumbling infrastructure of the nation's rural areas.需要更多的资金来拯救这个国家农村地区日渐破旧的基础设施。
We need to spend more money on maintaining and repairing infrastructure.我们需要花更多的钱来维修基础设施。
Infra- means "below;" so the infrastructure is the "underlying structure" of a country and its economy, the fixed installations that it needs in order to function. These include roads, bridges, dams, the water and sewer systems, railways and subways, airports, and harbors. These are generally government-built and publicly owned. Some people also speak about such things as the intellectual infrastructure or the infrastructure of science research, but the meaning of such notions can be extremely vague.
More money is needed to save the crumbling infrastructure of the nation's rural areas. We need to spend more money on maintaining and repairing infrastructure.
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