depopulate

• vt. 使人口减少
• vi. 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。

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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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