population
US /ˌpɑpjəˈleʃən/
・UK /ˌpɒpjuˈleɪʃn/
A2 初級英檢初級多益
n. (c./u.)名詞 (可數/不可數)居民；人口
The population of the village had decreased over the years as more people moved to the city
n. (c./u.)名詞 (可數/不可數)族群
The scientist studied the population of fish in the lake.
n. (c./u.)名詞 (可數/不可數)母體
The sample was representative of the entire population.
n. (c./u.)名詞 (可數/不可數)群體
The initial population for the genetic algorithm was randomly generated.
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人口過剩------------------------人類爆炸解釋 (Overpopulation – The Human Explosion Explained)
06:40
- The world population increased fourfold in the last century, so what can we expect for the next century?
世界人口在僅上世紀就攀升了四倍，那下個世紀又會如何增長呢？
- And what does population growth mean for our future?
人口增長對於我們的未來有什麼影響？
世界上最胖的國家有哪些？ (What Are The Fattest Countries In The World?)
06:13
- It may not come as a surprise to anyone to find the USA on this list since 31.8% of its population is currently classified as obese.
也許對大家來說，發現美國在這份名單上並不奇怪，因為目前有31.8%的美國人口被歸類為肥胖。
- find the USA on this list since 31.8% of its population is currently classified as obese.
美國目前有 31.8%的人口屬於肥胖。
我乘坐了世界上最短的班機。它是令人沮喪的。 (I took the world's shortest flight. It was underwhelming.)
04:32
- The vast majority of their 22,000-strong population lives on what's known, despite its island status, as the "mainland,"
他們的 22,000 名人口中的絕大多數生活在所謂的「大陸」上，儘管它仍是坐島嶼，
- Still, filling a nine-passenger plane to Papa Westray, in particular, with its 90-person population would be difficult.
儘管如此，在帕帕韋斯特雷島人口只有 90 人的情況下，想讓 9 人座飛機滿座仍十分困難。
你的出生月份如何影響你的成功 (How Your Birth Month Impacts Your Success)
07:10
- They grouped them in blocks of 4 months (also known as tertiles) and they compared the actual number of athletes per tertile against the numbers that you would expect from looking at the births of the population in Sweden.
他們將出生日期分為每四個月一組（也稱為三分位），並比較了每個三分位的實際運動員人數與從瑞典人口出生率估算出的期望數字。
- There's 27% more athletes born in the beginning of the year than what would be normal for the Swedish population, and 28% fewer at the end of the year.
在這個年齡段的田徑運動員中，在年初出生的運動員比在瑞典人口中的期望值多出 27%，而在年末出生的運動員則比期望值少了 28%。
印度人口超過中國對全球經濟的意義 | WSJ (What India’s Population Surpassing China’s Means for Global Economies | WSJ)
05:34
- For more than two centuries, China has had the largest population in the world.
兩個多世紀以來，中國一直是世界上人口最多的國家。
- India's population is expected to keep growing for the next four decades, peaking at nearly 1.7 billion in 2063.
印度人口預計將在未來四十年保持增長，並在 2063 年達到近 17 億的高峰。
你有沒有想過，為什麼華人會用筷子？ (Why Do the Chinese Use Chopsticks)
05:41
- This actually matters quite a lot when you've got a population as big as China's, which - mind you - was about 1/4th of the entire world's population at the time.
當你擁有像中國這樣龐大的人口時，這一點其實非常重要。- 你要知道，這大約是當時全世界人口的四分之一。
- - mind you - was about 1/4th of the entire world's population at the time.
- 你要知道，這大約是當時全世界人口的四分之一。
韓國居然在荒郊野外蓋了一座平庸的新首都？ (South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere)
06:52
- The Seoul Capital Area—comprising the city itself, plus Incheon and the Gyeonggi Province—has just under half of the whole country's population on under 12% of its land, and the income gap between there and everywhere else is widening.
首爾首都地區——包括城市本身，加上仁川和京畿道——在其不到 12% 的土地上擁有全國近一半的人口，而且該地區與其他地區之間的收入差距正在擴大。
- just under half of the whole country’s population on under 12% of its land, and the income gap
在不到 12%的土地上生活的人口不到全國人口的一半，收入差距也很大