population

英[ˌpɒpju'leɪʃn] 美[ˌpɑːpju'leɪʃn]

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n. (名词)

n. (名词)

[S]人口 the number of people living in a particular area, country etc.
[S]全体居民 people living in an area
[C]特定人群 a particular group or type of people or animals living in a particular place

Noun:

the people who inhabit a territory or state;
"the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area;
"they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn;
"it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
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"

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。

用作名词 (n.)

What is the population of this country?
这个国家的人口是多少？
The density of population in this city is very high.
这个城市的人口密度非常高。
There has been a steady decrease in population in this city.
这个城市的人口在持续下降。
We have a growing population and therefore we need more food.
我们的人口在增长，因此我们需要更多的食物。
The invaders prevailed over the native population.
入侵者打败了土著居民。
The population seemd to be well fed and clothed.
全体居民好像是丰衣足食。
The sparse vegetation will only feed a small population of animals.
稀疏的植物只能喂少量的动物族群。
All of the plant population in this habitat decreased.
此栖地的所有植物族群减少了。

用作名词 (n.)

China has the largest population among the countries of the world.
中国人口全世界最多。
The population began to decrease.
人口开始减少。
The survey covers a representative sample of the population.
这次调查包括有代表性的人口样本。
The population of this city is in the neighbourhood of three millions.
本市人口接近300万。
This is a country afflicted with the twin disasters of food shortage and population explosion.
该国正面临着两种孪生的灾难,即食品短缺和人口爆炸性的膨胀。
The city's population prepared to flee heat for the relative cool of the rivers.
该市居民准备逃到天气较为凉爽的江河流域避暑。
The population in these villages has to get its water from wells.
这些村庄里的居民不得不从井里取水。
There 50 percent or more of the population is illiterate.
那里50%或更多的群众是文盲。
They supplied other daily necessities to the city population.
他们为城市居民提供其他生活必需品。
It had a population of some three hundred families.
那里有大约300户的人口。
Entire populations were enslaved.
所有的群众都遭受奴役。

n. (名词)

population的基本意思是“人口”,还可指居住在某地的“全体居民”,作主语时谓语动词用单数形式; 在表示人口“多”“少”时,用large和small修饰。特指某一地区或某一国家的“人口”时,则前常加冠词the。
population用作可数名词,表示一个地区的“特定人群”“动物群”时,其前常加定冠词the。
population是集合名词,有时可加不定冠词,有时可用复数形式。

用作名词 (n.)

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