| 释义 |
reˈpopulate, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To populate again. Hence reˈpopulating vbl. n.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 220 This Temiragio returned to the city, and then beganne for to repopulate it. 1611Cotgr., Repeuplement, a repeopling, repopulating. 1859Hole Tour Irel. vii. (1892) 73 Great efforts are being made to repopulate the country. 1881R. N. Boyd Chili 116 The town was..rebuilt and repopulated by emigrants from the province of Biscay.
So repopuˈlation.
a1734North Lives (1826) I. 36 That perhaps may tend to some repopulation, which is more needed than any means of extortion. 1832L. Hunt Translations 330 What possible debtor can pay his debts better, Than De-population with Re-population? 1885Homilet. Rev. (U.S.) Feb. 166 Believing that prophecy teaches the repopulation of Palestine by Christianized Jews. |