population是什么意思_population怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.);"people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade"
"the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing"

the act of populating (causing to live in a place);"he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"

中英词源

population 人口

来自populate,居住，构成人口，-ion,名词后缀。

population (n.): 1610s, from Late Latin populationem (nominative populatio) "a people; a multitude," as if from Latin populus "a people" (see people (n.)). Population explosion is first attested 1953.

词态变化

复数 populations;

权威造句

1. An earthquake hit the capital, causing panic among the population.: 首都发生了地震，引发民众恐慌。

2. Food production has already fallen behind the population growth.: 粮食生产已经跟不上人口增长。

3. A substantial proportion of the population speak a French-based patois.: 人口中有一大部分说以法语为基础的混合语。

4. Environmentalists say a critical factor in the city"s pollution is its population.: 环境保护主义者说造成该城市污染问题的一个关键因素是其人口数量。

5. Britain has the largest and most flourishing fox population in Europe.: 英国拥有欧洲最大也是最具繁殖能力的狐狸种群。

近反义词

citizenry

citizens

community

folk

natives

people

相似短语

population boom n.人口爆炸

employed population 就业人口，就业人口

density of population 人口密度

fungal population 真菌群体，真菌种群

geochemical population 地球化学总体

equilibrium population 平衡群体

excess population 过剩粒子数

intermediate population 中介星族

infinite population 无限群体，无限总体

initial population 原始群体

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