Population
[pɒpjʊ'leɪʃ(ə)n] or [,pɑpju'leʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of populating (causing to live in a place); 'he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals'.
(noun.) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; 'it is an estimate of the mean of the population'.
(noun.) a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; 'they hired hunters to keep down the deer population'.
(noun.) the people who inhabit a territory or state; 'the population seemed to be well fed and clothed'.
(noun.) 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'.
埃弗雷特編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
(n.) The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
錄入:万斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Inhabitants, persons, number of people.
錄入:普勒斯顿
例句/造句/用法:
- A little population occupied its halls. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Taking the horse power as the equivalent of the work of five men, the work of steam is equivalent to that of a population of 500,000,000 working men. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The vital part of the population has pretty well emerged from any dumb acquiescence in constitutions. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Over most of the area of Western Central Asia and Persia and Mesopotamia, the ancient distinction of nomad and settled population remains to this day. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They seem to have been overrun and the population absorbed by the conquerors. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Chief Butler, no doubt, reflected that the course of nature required the wealthy population to be kept up, on his account. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- This demand they made to a population that subsisted almost entirely by overseas trade! 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The population had either to fly or submit to the Persians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It seems probable that in the Athenian population among all the Greek cities the pre-Aryan strain was unusually strong. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The trade in tobacco was enormous, considering the population to be supplied. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Britain was producing a great industrial population, Protestant or sceptical; she had agricultural labourers indeed, but no peasants. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Her population was chiefly a Mongolian population, with some very interesting white people of a Nordic type, the Hairy Ainu, in the northern islands. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Some of the European troops committed grave atrocities upon the Chinese civil population. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And away went the coach up Whitechapel, to the admiration of the whole population of that pretty densely populated quarter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Here for the first time the United States had real subject populations to deal with. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When, as in Macedonia, populations are mixed in a patchwork of villages and districts, the cantonal system is imperatively needed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The populations over which Charles Martel and King Pepin ruled were at very different levels of civilization in different districts. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Now because of the Union of the Parliaments, the enfranchisement of the English and Irish populations went on simultaneously. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- How far they learnt and mingled their strain with the new European populations, and how far they went under we cannot yet guess. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They really believed that the vast populations of eastern Asia could be permanently subordinated to such a Europe. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They dissolved into the surrounding populations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Such men regarded alien populations abroad merely as unimported slaves. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Sometimes they were enlisted from friendly foreign populations in which the military spirit still prevailed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They had but an insecure hold on the Persian and Indian populations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- By this time the enormous strain of the war was telling hardly upon all the European populations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In many modern states and in some ancient, there is great diversity of populations, of varying languages, religions, moral codes, and traditions. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- By the sixth century A.D. the populations of Europe and North Africa had been stirred up like sediment. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
整理:马文