| 词汇 | depopulate |
| 释义 | depopulate verb[ T ] uk /ˌdiːˈpɒp.jə.leɪt/ us /ˌdiːˈpɑː.pjə.leɪt/ to cause a country or area to have fewer people living in it: 使人口减少，使居民减少 The region was depopulated by disease/famine/war.该地区的人口因疾病／饥饿／战争而减少。 Environmental issues agroecology air pollution anoxia anoxic anti-conservation carbon capture dumping ground eco-audit eco-footprint efficiency energy conservation energy security environmental justice environmentalism reduce, reuse, recycleidiom rewilding runoff scrapyard scrubber sequester Related worddepopulation Examples of depopulatedepopulate For example, politicians from economically less privileged but politically over-represented districts may claim that poor, depopulated, and rural areas deserve to have more political weight. Areas depopulated by deaths and migration at the times of the famines did not recover earlier population densities until the mid-20th century. To charter a railroad would be in effect to depopulate the country through which it would pass. The infectious period ended on the day the herd was depopulated. Most tellingly, the historic townscape is almost entirely depopulated of historical actors : we are given no sense of the individuals who helped to shape the town. After calculating the particular ion density as above, the population densities of specific energy levels are calculated by solving a rate equation which includes all possible populating and depopulating mechanisms. The highlands were largely depopulated by the clearances in earlier centuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead of allowing those areas to become depopulated, we should establish light industries there to produce consumer durable goods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The regional differences between growth regions and depopulated areas could be increased. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The bureaucratic planning authorities which, with their dogmatic beliefs, are destroying and depopulating rural society, need to show more understanding. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English As a result of poverty and disease, vast territories are virtually depopulated, even without war. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English But that means that the countryside will rapidly depopulate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Has he a completely closed mind and is he prepared to depopulate these areas completely of workers? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Should it just become depopulated, or is he prepared to give further inducements to industries to go there? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The social cost alone of depopulating the countryside will far outweigh any saving on these railway closures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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