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单词 population
释义
population
noun[C,+ sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
B1
all thepeoplelivingin aparticularcountry,area, orplace:
人口；全体居民
Tenpercentofthepopulationlivedinpoverty.10%的人口生活在贫困之中。
In 1992thepopulation of Cairo wasapproximately6,500,000.1992年开罗的人口约为650万。
agrowing/shrinkingpopulation增长／逐渐减少的人口
Throughout thewar, there werehorrificcasualtiesamong thecivilianpopulations of bothcountries.整个战争期间，两国平民伤亡惨重。
The UN isinvestigatingnewmethodsof populationcontrol(=limitingthegrowthof thenumberofpeople).联合国正在研究控制人口的新方法。
Thecountryisfacinga populationexplosion(=suddengrowthin thenumberofpeople).这个国家正面临着一场人口爆炸。
B2
all thepeopleoranimalsof aparticulartypeorgroupwholivein onecountry,area, orplace:
（统称）（一定范围内的）人口，动物总数
There's been a ninepercentrisein theprisonpopulation(= thenumberofpeopleinprison).监狱收押人数上升了9%。
Thedolphinpopulation has beendecimatedbytunafishing.捕捞金枪鱼导致海豚的数量大大减少。
More examples
  • Children make up alargeproportionof the world's population.
  • The population as awholeis gettinghealthier.
  • The earlysettlersenslavedorkilledmuch of thenativepopulation.
  • In the past eightyears, theelephantpopulation inAfricahas beenhalved.
  • Many of the world'scitieshave populations of more than five million.
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(Definition ofpopulationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

population| American Dictionary

population
noun[C/U]
us
/ˌpɑp·jəˈleɪ·ʃən/
(abbreviationpop.)
all thepeoplelivingin aparticularcountry,area, orplace:
[U]What is the population of Toronto(= how manypeoplelivethere)?
biology
Population is also used to refer to all thelivingthings of aparticulartypeorgroupwholivein aparticularareaorenvironment.
(Definition ofpopulationfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

population| Business English

population
noun
uk
/ˌpɒpjəˈleɪʃən/us
[SorU]
thenumberofpeoplelivingin aparticularcountry,area, ortown:
a population of 12,000/175,000/13 million, etc.With a population of 2.1 million, it is the country's 25thlargestmetropolitanarea.
We'veseenaslowbutsteadydeclinein populationover theyears.
In thesecountriesthere is stillrapidpopulationgrowth.
[S]
all thepeoplelivingin aparticularcountry,area, ortown:
10% of the population werelivinginpoverty.
[C,usually singular]
all thepeopleoranimalsof aparticulartypeorgroupthatlivein onecountry,area, ortown:
More thanhalfof the world'sworkingpopulationhas noformalemploymentorsocialsecurityarrangements.
With therestrictionsonhunting,deerpopulations havebeguntogrow.

See also

active population
floating population
(Definition ofpopulationfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpopulation

population
Secondly, our results are restricted only to females and may not extrapolate to male populations.
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Assessing depressive symptoms in five psychiatric populations : a validation study.
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Posttraumatic stress disorder associated with exposure to criminal victimization in clinical and community populations.
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Regions with sizable urban populations appeared to maintain much less credible registers than regions with largely rural populations.
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Anything that worsens a population's economic well-being has the effect of increasing vulnerability to disease as well as to external pressures.
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Qualitative similarity of parasite communities was higher between host populations living in the localities not influenced by the sea.
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We were specifically interested in the shape of the exposure-prevalence function for both host populations.
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Indeed, in natural populations of cyprinids, and animals in general, there are few obvious symptoms of disease.
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Both of these will be affected by migration, movement and intermixing between human populations in endemic areas.
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A wider study including denser molecular sampling of populations and a re-evaluation of purported morphological differences will help to confirm this.
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They thus represent a perfect natural system of comparable populations.
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Using these methods, the resistance status of parasite populations can be analysed by testing representative numbers of individual nematode larvae or adults.
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In the general case of mobile heavies, the motion of all three populations (electrons, protons and heavies) becomes strongly coupled.
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High bruchid populations in treatments with parasitoid introduction were reduced by 50-75% compared to the control treatments without parasitoids.
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Clusters were identical to those used to assign populations to groups.
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Collocationswithpopulation

population

These are words often used in combination withpopulation.

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aboriginal population
The area also has a significant and relatively young aboriginal population.
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adolescent population
Measuring life events in anadolescentpopulation: methodological issues and related findings.
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adult population
And 39 per cent of theadultpopulation, as many as 225 million people, remains illiterate.
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