populated

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populate /ˈpɒpjʊˌleɪt/ (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。

• 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. 後繼政權吞竝了這個地區竝讓低地居民聚居於此。

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