populated是什么意思？

populated

英['pɒpjʊleɪtɪd] 美['pɒpjʊleɪtɪd]

• v. 居住于( populate的过去式和过去分词 )，生活于，移民于，落户于；

例句

• This area is thinly populated. 此地人口稀疏。
• Relative to the size,the city is sparsely populated. 与其面积相比,这个城市的人口是稀少的。
• a sparsely populated region 人口稀少的地区
• Colonists from Europe populated many parts of the Americas. 欧洲的殖民者移居到了美洲的许多地方。
• Downsized weapons would probably offer greater utility in less populated areas. 减量化的核子武器或许比较适用于可提高它在人口较少的地区.
• Relative to the size, the city is sparsely populated. 与其面积相比, 这个城市的人口是稀少的.
• Rural areas are sparsely populated. 乡村地区人烟稀少。
• Twenty million years ago, Idaho was not the arid place it is now. Rather, it was warm and damp, populated by dense primordial forest. 2,000万年前，爱达荷州并不像现在这样干旱。相反，那时的爱达荷州温暖潮湿，有大片的原始森林。
• Twenty million years ago, Idaho was populated by dense primordial forest. 2,000万年前，爱达荷州到处都是茂密的原始森林。
• Java is a densely populated island. 爪哇岛人口稠密。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  （大批地）居住于，生活于，栖居于
  If an area is populated by certain people or animals, those people or animals live there, often in large numbers.
  例句
  Before all this the island was populated by native American Arawaks. 在所有这一切发生之前，这个岛上居住的是印第安阿拉瓦克人。 ...native Sindhis, who populate the surrounding villages. 生活在周围村庄的当地信德人
• VERB
  向…移民
  To populate an area means to cause people to live there.
  例句
  Successive regimes annexed the region and populated it with lowland people. 各继任政权吞并了该地区，并将低地的人们迁移到了这里。
• VERB
  在…中占有位置；占据
  The people or characters who populate an area of public life or a piece of entertainment are the people or characters in it.
  例句
  ...the diligent and discreet technocrats who populate the upper reaches of French power. 占据法国政权上层的勤勉、审慎的技术专家型官员 ...the sort of low-life characters who populate the film. 电影里那种来自下层社会的人物

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. furnished with inhabitants;
  "the area is well populated""forests populated with all kinds of wild life"