| 单词 | populate |
| 释义 | populate (pɒpjʊleɪt ) Word forms: populates , populating , populated 1. verb If an area is populated by certain people or animals, those people or animals live there, often in large numbers. Before all this the island was populated by native American Arawaks. [be VERB-ed] ...native Sindhis, who populate the surrounding villages. [VERB noun] populated adjective [adverb ADJECTIVE] The southeast is the most densely populated area. Rural areas are sparsely populated. -populated combining form ...to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas under threat of attack. 2. verb To populate an area means to cause people to live there. Successive regimes annexed the region and populated it with lowland people. [VERB noun + with] 3. verb The people or characters who populate an area of public life or a piece of entertainment are the people or characters in it. ...the stick-thin models who populate the glossy women's magazines. ...the sort of low-life characters who populate the film. [VERB noun] Collocations: populate a state She adapted the national program to meet the special musical interests of her sparsely populated state. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Gold was chosen to represent the gold rush that has populated the state in the 1840s and 1850s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They eventually populated the state and began to control local politics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Greenway used the airline much for personal and business travel, especially in her political campaigns in the thinly populated state. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But he and we are about to discover more about the past and the many people who populate the town. The Times Literary Supplement With the increase in tourism, small hotels and hostels, as well as restaurants and bars populate the town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1940, 1,233 people populated the town, and by 1970 there were 1,418 citizens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A number of close relatives along with four sisters populated the town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This, in turn, could help to solve the problem of feeding the estimated 9.2 billion human beings that will populate the world by 2050. Times, Sunday Times Many have a vendetta against humans, and have ambitions to wipe out the human race and populate the world with their own species. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This series spans millennia, as the ship's descendants populate the world and develop unique cultures and psi abilities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He returned victorious from her battles with evil (57.12), which allowed the various aspects of creation to populate the world (57.23). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 使聚居 Japanese: 人を居住させる |
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