population

population — 名詞

1. everyone living in one city, region, or country, seen as a whole or measured by

1.名詞B1
釋義

人口

某地全部居民及其總數

everyone living in one city, region, or country, seen as a whole or measured by number.

例句

Tokyo's population passed fourteen million in the latest city count.

東京的人口在最近一次市政統計中超過一千四百萬。

population + number

After the mine closed, the town's population fell year by year.

礦場關閉後，那座城鎮的人口一年一年下降。

同義詞
  • residents

    everyday and often about the people who live in a place individually

  • inhabitants

    slightly more formal; common in geography or history

  • populace

    more formal or literary; stresses the people as a mass

文法句型

population of + place

a population of + number

用法筆記

Often used with numbers and change words such as rise, fall, grow, and decline. Distinguish from sense 2, which focuses on one kind of people or animals inside a place rather than everyone there.

常見錯誤

❌Taipei has many populations.
✅Taipei has a large population.
💡for one place, this sense usually means the whole number of people there.

2. people or animals in the same place that are counted together because they belon

2.名詞B2
釋義

族群

某地某類人或動物

people or animals in the same place that are counted together because they belong to one kind.

例句

Doctors worry about the fast-growing elderly population in rural Taiwan.

醫師擔心台灣偏鄉快速增加的高齡族群。

adjective + population for subgroup

The wolf population recovered after hunting was banned in the park.

公園裡的狼族群在狩獵被禁止後恢復了。

animal + population

同義詞
  • group

    very general and not limited to people or animals in one place

  • community

    often human and may suggest shared identity, not just a counted set

  • subgroup

    stresses being one part of a larger whole

文法句型

adjective + population

animal/group + population

用法筆記

Usually paired with a word that names the type, such as elderly, student, wolf, or insect. Distinguish from sense 1, which means all the people living in the place as one whole.

常見錯誤

❌The city population of old people is growing.
✅The elderly population of the city is growing.
💡in this sense, name the group clearly before or after 'population'.