depopulate 详细解释

depopulate

[di:'pɔpjuleit]

vt. 使人口减少

词形变化

名词: depopulation | 动词过去式: depopulated | 动词过去分词: depopulated | 动词现在分词: depopulating | 动词第三人称单数: depopulates |

英英释义

动词 depopulate:

reduce in population

同义词:desolate

补充

depopulatedepopulate英:[di:ˈpɔpjuleit] 美:[diˈpɑpjəˌlet]v.1.(使)人口减少

例句

1. The famine threatened to depopulate the continent.饥荒可能会导致该大洲人口减少。 2. The countryside was depopulating to the point of desolation.农村人口已经减少到荒无人烟的地步了。 3. The conquerors depopulated the enemy's country by destruction and expulsion.征服者用毁灭和驱逐的方法来减少敌国的人口。 4. the disease could depopulate a town the size of Bournemouth.这种疾病可以使像伯恩茅斯这么大的市镇人口剧减。 5. Large areas of the country had been depopulated by disease.这个国家大部分地区的人口由于疾病而减少了。 6. "an empty, depopulated landscape"人烟稀少的荒凉景象