depopulate
英 [diː'pɒpjʊleɪt]
美 [,di'pɑpjulet]
TEM8
depopulate 使人口减少de-, 不，非，使相反。populate, 人口聚居。即使人口减少。
- depopulate (v.)
- 1540s; see de- + populate. Perhaps from Latin depopulatus, past participle of depopulari "to lay waste, ravage." Related: Depopulated; depopulating. Earlier in same sense was dispeplen (early 15c.).
- 1. The famine threatened to depopulate the continent.
- 饥荒可能会导致该大洲人口剧减。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. King Ptolemy prohibited Hegesias from lecturing , lest he depopulate the country.
- 国王托勒密因此禁止何基西亚斯讲课, 以避免其哲学使国家人口下降. )
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