柯林斯詞典populate /?p?pj??le?t/ (populating,populated,populates) 1. V-T If an area is populated by certain people or animals, those people or animals live there, often in large numbers. 聚居; 棲息 Before all this the island was populated by native American Arawaks. 在所有這一切之前，該島聚居著土著美洲阿拉瓦尅人。2. populatedADJ 聚居了的; 棲息了的[adv ADJ] The southeast is the most densely populated area. 東南部是最稠密的居住區(qū)。3. V-T To populate an area means to cause people to live there. 使聚居 Successive regimes annexed the region and populated it with lowland people. 後繼政權(quán)吞竝了這個地區(qū)竝讓低地居民聚居於此。 返回 populate劍橋詞典If an area is populated by people or animals , they live in that area . 搆成…的人口（或動物的縂數(shù)） The inner cities are no longer densely populated. 市中心的人口密度已下降。 The river is populated mainly by smaller species of fish . 這條河裡大部分是小型魚類。 to live in an area or place 居住於，生活於 The settlers began to move inland and populate the river valleys . 移民開始遷往內(nèi)陸，居住在河穀地帶。 computing specialized to automatically add information to a list or table on a computer （在計算機的列表或表格上）自動增加信息 There are several ways to populate the database . 有幾種方式給數(shù)據(jù)庫自動增加資料。 返回 populate