Translation of population – English–Traditional Chinese dictionary

population

noun [ C, + sing/pl verb ]

/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/ us

/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/

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all the people living in a particular country, area, or place

人口;全體居民

Ten percent of the population lived in poverty. 10%的人口生活在貧困之中。

In 1992 the population of Cairo was approximately 6,500,000. 1992年開羅的人口約為650萬。

a growing/shrinking population 增長／逐漸減少的人口

Throughout the war, there were horrific casualties among the civilian populations of both countries. 整個戰爭期間，兩國人民傷亡慘重。

The UN is investigating new methods of population control (= limiting the growth of the number of people). 聯合國正在研究控制人口的新方法。

The country is facing a population explosion (= sudden growth in the number of people). 這個國家正面臨著一場人口爆炸。

all the people or animals of a particular type or group who live in one country, area, or place

（統稱）（一定範圍內的）人口，動物總數

There's been a nine percent rise in the prison population (= the number of people in prison). 監獄收押人數上升了9%。

The dolphin population has been decimated by tuna fishing. 捕撈鮪魚導致海豚的數量大大減少。

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Children make up a large proportion of the world's population.
The population as a whole is getting healthier.
The early settlers enslaved or killed much of the native population.
In the past eight years, the elephant population in Africa has been halved.
Many of the world's cities have populations of more than five million.

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Proportional relationships may (or may not) occur when both populations grow exponentially until they reach their maximum abundance.

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The simulations have been carried out for populations with two different growth rates.

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Levels of natural populations of larval parasitoids were measured by their parasitism rate.

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The estimates of the infection rate are also quite variable, but this could be explained by differences in the study populations.

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We were specifically interested in the shape of the exposure-prevalence function for both host populations.

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Targets do not markedly affect robust populations outside the deployment area.

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The proportion of genetic variation between regions, among populations within regions, and within populations was calculated for each enzyme (table 2).

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The focus of the third section is on bilingual language acquisition for special populations.

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人口, 全体居民, （统称）（一定范围内的）人口，动物总数…

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