托福考试向导名词

托福考试向导名词

1 人口 (总数) ,居民人数

This city has a ~ of 350, 000. = The ~ of this city is 350, 000.

这个城市有三十五万人口

What [How large] is the ~ of Taipei?.

台北有多少人口?

2 [the ~; 集合称] (一定区域的) (全体) 居民,市民

The whole ~ of the town came out to welcome him.

央抑镇民都出来欢迎他

3 [用单数; 常与修饰语连用] ‘生物’ (一定区域的) 族群,栖群

the koala ~ of Australia

澳洲的无尾熊族群

pop·u·la·tion n.

Pronunciation: ?p?-py?-’lā-sh?n

Function: noun

Etymology: Late Latin population-, populatio, from Latin populus

Date: 1612

1 a : the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region b : the total of individuals occupying an area or making up a whole c : the total of particles at a particular energy level ― used especially of atoms in a laser

2 : the act or process of populating

3 a : a body of persons or individuals having a quality or characteristic in common b (1) : the organisms inhabiting a particular locality (2) : a group of interbreeding organisms that represents the level of organization at which speciation begins

4 : a group of individual persons, objects, or items from which samples are taken for statistical measurement