populate
verb /ˈpɒpjuleɪt/
/ˈpɑːpjuleɪt/
动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they populate | /ˈpɒpjuleɪt/ /ˈpɑːpjuleɪt/ |
| he / she / it populates | /ˈpɒpjuleɪts/ /ˈpɑːpjuleɪts/ |
| past simple populated | /ˈpɒpjuleɪtɪd/ /ˈpɑːpjuleɪtɪd/ |
| past participle populated | /ˈpɒpjuleɪtɪd/ /ˈpɑːpjuleɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form populating | /ˈpɒpjuleɪtɪŋ/ /ˈpɑːpjuleɪtɪŋ/ |
- [often passive] populate something to live in an area and form its population
居住于；生活于；构成…的人口 - a heavily/densely/sparsely/thinly populated country
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
- a heavily/densely/sparsely/thinly populated country
- populate something 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。
- The French began to populate the island in the 15th century.
- populate something (computing
计算机 （给文件）增添数据，输入数据
词源late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin populat- ‘supplied with people’, from the verb populare, from populus ‘people’.