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1. What is the population of this city?
这个城市的人口是多少?
2. Only ten percent of the population here is illiterate.
这里只有百分之十的居民是文盲。
3. The population in these villages still uses well water.
住在这些乡村里的人依然饮用井水。
4. The elephant population in that area is falling.
那个地区的大象总数在下降。
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5. What''s the population of the country?
这个国家有多少人口?
1. (某一国家或地区的)全体人民,人口
The population of a country or area is all the people who live in it.
e.g. Bangladesh now has a population of about 110 million.
孟加拉国现有大约1.1亿人口。
e.g. ...the annual rate of population growth.
人口年增长率
2. (某一国家或地区某类人或动物的)总数
If you refer to a particular type of population in a country or area, you are referring to all the people or animals of that type there.
e.g. ...75.6 per cent of the male population over sixteen.
16岁以上男性中的75.6%
e.g. ...areas with a large black population.
黑人人口众多的地区
noun
1. the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
e.g. he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals
2. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
e.g. it is an estimate of the mean of the population
Synonym: universe
3. a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
e.g. they hired hunters to keep down the deer population
4. the people who inhabit a territory or state
e.g. the population seemed to be well fed and clothed
5. 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.)
e.g. 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