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单词 overpopulation
释义
overpopulation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
thefactof acountryorcity, etc. having too manypeoplefor theamountoffood,materials, andspaceavailablethere:
人口过多，人口过剩
Overpopulation is one of the country's mostpressingsocialproblems.人口过剩是该国最紧迫的社会问题之一。
People aredyingbecause of overpopulation,poverty, anddisease.人们正在因为人口过剩、贫穷和疾病而死去。
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overpopulated
More examples
  • Global overpopulation must be thetoppriorityof anyadministration.
  • Contraception hashelpedpreventoverpopulation.
  • What are thegovernmentdoing totacklethe overpopulationproblem?
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(Definition ofoverpopulationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoverpopulation

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You could, of course, reply that this being an exceptional situation (as it is in this example), the toll onoverpopulationwould be imperceptible.
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These problems increased day by day due to lack of efficient auditing,overpopulationand accelerated migration to urban areas, wrong location choices, and unplanned industrialization.
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The result was a vastoverpopulationof composers, whose numbers swelled even as their outlets contracted.
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Another lesson is that fast economic growth combined with inadequate government policies can be as devastating for the environment asoverpopulationand intense poverty.
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In the last analysis,overpopulationreceives most of the blame, but the current materialistic attitude of the developed world is given almost equal credit.
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The question then becomes one of finding a way to preventoverpopulationand destruction of that life-support system.
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In fact, when replacing anoverpopulationcategory by its sons, it may well be the case that some of its sons are underpopulated.
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That problem is population, or more specifically, humanoverpopulation.
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The study of networks in migration history so far seems to employ less explicit models than theoverpopulationapproach.
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Other social liabilities such as war fare, interruption of trade routes, impoverishment of soil nutrients, andoverpopulationwould have exacerbated relationships with the background conditions.
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Respondents were asked about advanced industrialized country resource consumption, the operations of multinational corporations, and developing countryoverpopulation.
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This is a good example of different levels at which one can identify a case of "overpopulation" under diverse circumstances.
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Their absence is certainly conspicuous, given the implicit focus on reproduction, as the source ofoverpopulationand the consequent "vice and misery," within the text.
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The land-subdivision andoverpopulationtheses imply a causal connection between being poor compared to other people in the land of origin and the decision to emigrate.
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A pervasive hazard causes a gradual reduction in the resource potential of a landscape and affects the resident population in much the same way asoverpopulation.
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