Populate
['pɒpjʊleɪt] or ['pɑpjulet]
解释:
(verb.) fill with inhabitants; 'populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting'.
(verb.) inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; 'People lived in Africa millions of years ago'; 'The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted'; 'this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean'; 'deer are populating the woods'.
狄伦编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Populous.
(v. t.) To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
(v. i.) To propagate.
整理:默尔
同义词及近义词:
v. a. People.
埃尔韦拉录入
例句:
- By the way, how did you populate this new Rome of yours? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- And away went the coach up Whitechapel, to the admiration of the whole population of that pretty densely populated quarter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- A country populated by pure logicians and mathematical scientists would, I believe, produce few inventions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Benjamin was from Indiana, still less populated, where the wolf yet roamed over the prairies. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Streams which flow through populated regions are apt to be contaminated, and hence water from them requires public filtration. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- In time, I populated Melnos accorded to my mind, and then set my new subjects to work on dwellings and industries. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Their world is not populated by men and women, but by a Unity that is Permanent. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
校对:米利森特