In the conurbations in question, the number of households is rising fast as hordes of ambitious millennials pour in.

随着雄心勃勃的千禧一代成群结队涌进上述讨论的大城市中，城市家庭数量快速增加。

People buying homes need only make a 20% down-payment to obtain a mortgage, except in the five conurbations, where they must put down 30%.

购房者只需支付20%的首付款即可获得房屋贷款（这五个城市则需要付30%）；

Refugees, it seems, are just like other human beings: they are trying their luck in the vast conurbations whose growth will continue to be a big social trend in the 21st century.

难民看起来就像其他人群：他们在大城市撞大运且数量持续增长，将是21世纪的社会趋势。

In some conurbations (e. g. the areas around Munich, Stuttgart and Frankfurt a. M.), house prices are rising at an above-average pace, but much more slowly than in New York, London or Madrid.

慕尼黑、斯图加特和法兰克福等都市圈的房价升速快于全国的平均水平，等也比纽约、伦敦和马德里等地慢得多。

we [will] end up with millions of small farmers all over the world being driven off their land into unsustainable, unmanageable, degraded and dysfunctional conurbations of unmentionable awfulness.

那么我们最终的结局就是世界各地数百万小农户被赶出自己的土地，汇入到不可持续，无法控制，功能退化失调，无以名状的丑陋城市集群中。