Population

(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'.

埃弗雷特编辑

• A little population occupied its halls. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• 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. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The vital part of the population has pretty well emerged from any dumb acquiescence in constitutions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They seem to have been overrun and the population absorbed by the conquerors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Chief Butler, no doubt, reflected that the course of nature required the wealthy population to be kept up, on his account. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• This demand they made to a population that subsisted almost entirely by overseas trade! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The population had either to fly or submit to the Persians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It seems probable that in the Athenian population among all the Greek cities the pre-Aryan strain was unusually strong. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The trade in tobacco was enormous, considering the population to be supplied. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Britain was producing a great industrial population, Protestant or sceptical; she had agricultural labourers indeed, but no peasants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Some of the European troops committed grave atrocities upon the Chinese civil population. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• 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.
• Here for the first time the United States had real subject populations to deal with. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• When, as in Macedonia, populations are mixed in a patchwork of villages and districts, the cantonal system is imperatively needed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The populations over which Charles Martel and King Pepin ruled were at very different levels of civilization in different districts. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Now because of the Union of the Parliaments, the enfranchisement of the English and Irish populations went on simultaneously. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They really believed that the vast populations of eastern Asia could be permanently subordinated to such a Europe. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They dissolved into the surrounding populations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Such men regarded alien populations abroad merely as unimported slaves. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Sometimes they were enlisted from friendly foreign populations in which the military spirit still prevailed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They had but an insecure hold on the Persian and Indian populations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• By this time the enormous strain of the war was telling hardly upon all the European populations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In many modern states and in some ancient, there is great diversity of populations, of varying languages, religions, moral codes, and traditions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• By the sixth century A.D. the populations of Europe and North Africa had been stirred up like sediment. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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