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单词 depopulate
分类 英汉词典
释义
词典释义:
depopulate
英 [diːˈpɒpjʊleɪt]
美 [diˈpɑpjəˌleɪt]

v. 大量减少…的人口

  • 第三人称单数 depopulates
  • 现在分词 depopulating
  • 名词 depopulation
  • 过去分词 depopulated
  • 过去式 depopulated
双语例句
  • The famine threatened to depopulate the continent.

    饥荒威胁着该大陆人口数量。

  • Recently a Rockefeller agent in Japan told me of a plan to build 500 nuclear reactors in China and then blow them up with an earthquake machine in order to “depopulate China.”

    近来, 一位在日本的洛克菲勒代理人告诉我一个计划:在中国建造500个核反应堆,然后再通过地震设备将其引爆,目的是“减少中国人口”。

  • Keep in mind: at the start of this century, many experts predicted that AIDS would depopulate the African region, raising the prospect of state failure in the hardest-hit places.

    要知道,本世纪之初时,许多专家曾预言艾滋病将使非洲区域人口减少,并指出受影响最严重地区的国家将面临失败的前景。

释义
v.

substantially reduce the population of (an area)

大量减少(某地区)的人口

  • the disease could depopulate a town the size of Bournemouth.

     这种疾病可以使像伯恩茅斯这种规模的市镇人口锐减。

词源

"mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘ravage, lay waste’): from Latin depopulat- ‘ravaged', from the verb depopulari, from de- ‘completely’ + populari ‘lay waste' (from populus ‘people’)."

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