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(gè)地區(qū)竝讓低地居民聚居於此。 返回 populated