[VERB 动词](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.
[be V-ed]
[V n]
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
populated
The southeast is the most densely populated area...
东南部是人口最稠密的地区。
Rural areas are sparsely populated.
乡村地区人烟稀少。
-populated
Shelling from federal army tanks razed half the houses in the Croat-populated part of Glina.
联邦军坦克的炮击将格利纳的克罗地亚人居住区一半的房屋夷为平地。
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[VERB 动词]向…移民 To populate an area means to cause people to live there.
[V n with n]
[Also V n]
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。
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[VERB 动词]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.
[V n]
...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
Oxford
popu·late/ˈpɒpjuleɪt; NAmEˈpɑːpjuleɪt/verb1[often passive ]populatesth to live in an area and form its population 居住于;生活于;构成…的人口SYN
inhabit
◆a heavily/densely/sparsely/thinly populatedcountry 人口密集╱稠密╱稀疏╱稀少的国家◆The island is populated largely by sheep.这个岛的主要生物是绵羊。◆( figurative) the amazing characters that populate her novels常见于她小说中的令人惊叹的人物2populatesth to move people or animals to an area to live there 迁移;移居;殖民于◆The French began to populate the island in the 15th century.法国人于 15 世纪开始迁移到这个岛。3populatesth ( computing 计) to add data to a document (给文件)增添数据,输入数据populatepopulatespopulatedpopulatingpopu·late/ˈpɒpjuleɪt; NAmEˈpɑːpjuleɪt/
1if an area is populated by a particular group of people, they live there: The highlands are populated mainly by peasant farmers.densely/heavily/highly/thickly populated (=with a lot of people) one of the most densely populated areas in the worldsparsely/thinly/lightly populated (=with very few people)GRAMMARPopulate is usually passive.2technical to fill a computer database or table with information
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