population

英 [ˌpɒpju'leɪʃn] 美 [ˌpɑːpju'leɪʃn]

• n. 人口；(全体)居民；群体

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [S]人口

   the number of people living in a particular area, country etc.

2. [S]全体居民

   people living in an area

3. [C]特定人群

   a particular group or type of people or animals living in a particular place

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 人口，人口总数
2. 全部居民，人们
3. 特定居民
4. 动物的总数，物品的总数，物的全体
5. 【生】族群，群体，种群（量）
6. 【统】对象总体；母体；总体
7. 人口的聚居
8. 【生】虫口
9. 族，组
10. 个数

英英释义

Noun:

1. the people who inhabit a territory or state;

   "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
   

2. a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area;

   "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
   

3. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn;

   "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
   

4. 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"
   

5. the act of populating (causing to live in a place);

   "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. What is the population of this country?
   这个国家的人口是多少？
2. The density of population in this city is very high.
   这个城市的人口密度非常高。
3. There has been a steady decrease in population in this city.
   这个城市的人口在持续下降。
4. 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。
5. The invaders prevailed over the native population.
   入侵者打败了土著居民。
6. The population seemd to be well fed and clothed.
   全体居民好像是丰衣足食。
7. 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。
8. All of the plant population in this habitat decreased.
   此栖地的所有植物族群减少了。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. China has the largest population among the countries of the world.
   中国人口全世界最多。
2. The population began to decrease.
   人口开始减少。
3. The survey covers a representative sample of the population.
   这次调查包括有代表性的人口样本。
4. The population of this city is in the neighbourhood of three millions.
   本市人口接近300万。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. There 50 percent or more of the population is illiterate.
   那里50%或更多的群众是文盲。
9. 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。
10. It had a population of some three hundred families.
    那里有大约300户的人口。
11. Entire populations were enslaved.
    所有的群众都遭受奴役。

经典引文

• A world population where life expectancy is continuously increasing.

  出自： Anthony Huxley

• By 1986..the town of Richards Bay had a population of nearly 20 000.

  出自：South African Panorama

• The effect of radiation on proliferating cell populations.

  出自：British Medical Bulletin

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• contain population of 拥有…人口
• control population 控制人口
• feed population 养活人口
• gain in population 增加人口
• have population of 拥有…人口
• increase population 增加人口
• lose population 减少人口
• make up population 构成人口
• reach population of 300,000 达到三十万人口

形容词+～

• active population 职业人员,从业人员
• aging population 老龄人口
• British population 英国人口
• civilian population 平民
• decreasing population 日益减少的人口
• dense population 稠密的人口
• entire population 全部人口
• expanding population 日益增长的人口
• female population 女性人口
• feminine population 女性人口
• floating population 流动人口
• foreign population 外籍人口
• foreign-born population 非本国出生人口
• growing population 日益增长的人口
• huge population 众多的人口
• illiterate population 文盲人口
• increasing population 日益增长的人口
• large population 众多的人口
• local population 当地人口
• male population 男性人口
• native-born population 本地出生人口
• overflowing population 过剩人口
• rising population 日益增长的人口
• shifting population 流动人口
• small population 少量的人口
• stable population 稳定的人口
• surplus population 过剩人口
• thickening population 不断增加的人口
• thinning population 不断减少的人口
• transient population 流动人口
• urban population 城市人口
• whole population 全部人口
• working population 就业人口

名词+～

• campus population 在校学生人数
• hospital population 住院病人人数
• mass population 大众
• resident population 居民人口
• school age population 学龄人口
• the elephant population 象群

～+名词

• population base 人口基数
• population centre 居民点
• population growth 人口增长
• population policy 人口政策
• population pressure 人口压力

介词+～

• growth in population 人口的增长
• aging of population 人口老化
• city of 700,000 population 一个七十万人口的城市
• large concentration of population 人口高度集中
• quality of population 人口素质
• with population of 140,000 有人口十四万

～+介词

• population of city 城市人口
• population of one million 一百万人口

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. population是集合名词,有时可加不定冠词,有时可用复数形式。

常见错误

n. (名词)

1. 坎大哈市有23万人。

   误 Kandahar has a population of 230,000 people.

   正 Kandahar has a population of 230,000 .

   析 这里的people是多余的,应该去掉。

2. 日本人口有多少?

   误 How many are the population of Japan?

   误 How large is the Japanese population?

   正 How large is the population of Japan?

   正 What is the population of Japan?

   析 提问“多少人口”须用How large或what,另外,“日本人口”应说the population of Japan,不能说 Japanese population。

3. 广州的人口比海口多。

   误 The population of Guangzhou is more than that of Haikou.

   正 The population of Guangzhou is larger than that of Haikou.

   析 population是集合名词,一般不可与many, few搭配,而要用large, small,当表示“比…人口多”时,一般也不用more而用large,且谓语动词用单数形式。

4. 中国人口众多。

   误 There is a very large population in China.

   正 China has a very large population.

   析 陈述句中表示“有多少人口”要用动词have,而不用there be结构。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自晚期拉丁语的populationem，意为大众。

近反义词

【近义词】

• citizenry
• citizens
• community
• folk
• natives
• people