Census
['sensəs] or ['sɛnsəs]
解释:
(noun.) a periodic count of the population.
(verb.) conduct a census; 'They censused the deer in the forest'.
校对:谢尔曼--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.
(n.) An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.
校对:鲁本
解释:
n. an official enumeration of the inhabitants of a country and of statistics relating to them.—adj. Cen′sual relating to or containing a census.
校对:克劳斯
例句:
- No one would take a census of prostitution, illegitimacy, adultery, or venereal disease for a statement of reliable facts. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The following figures are based upon the Special Reports of the Census Bureau, 1902 and 1907, with additions computed upon the increase that has subsequently taken place. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- At the census of 1790, Massachusetts, alone of all the states, returned no slaves. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Of course, in an obvious census like that of the number of people personal bias counts for so little that it is lost in the grand total. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The whole amorphous field of clandestine vice will, of course, defeat any census. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- By 1907 an even more notable increase was shown, and the Census figures for that year included no fewer than 6,118,578 stations, of which 1,986,575 were independent. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The United States Census Office statistics of 1902 show that the income from incandescent lighting by central stations had by that time become over 52 per cent. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
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