- 1人口學
Demography is the study of human populations and the ways they change. It looks at how many births, marriages, and deaths happen in a particular place at a particular time, and also at people moving from one place to another. From that, you can see whether a country is getting older, whether cities are growing, or whether there will be more children in ten years. Though actually, demography is not only a pile of numbers. The numbers are a way to tell a story about how people live together, and what may happen next. It is a formal, academic word, used in social science, government planning, and news about “an population.” Students sometimes mix it with democracy because both start with demo-; they share an old Greek piece meaning “people,” but they are not the same subject.
組成From demo- (“people,” Ancient Greek δῆμος dêmos) + -graphy (“written representation of,” from Greek -γραφία / γραφή, “writing, drawing, description”).
同家族的字
- demographerthe person who studies demography
- demographicfrom the same pieces; about the make-up of a population
- democracyshares demo-, from Greek for “people”
- geographyshares -graphy: a written description of something
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
demographynoun/dɪˈmɒɡɹəfi/
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The study of the characteristics of human populations, especially with regards to their makeup and fluctuations and the social causes behind these.
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The study of the structure and population dynamics of other lifeforms, such as mammals, insects, plants, etc.
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The particular demographic makeup of a population.
- the schoolʼs demography began to change with the immigrants and their offspring pouring in
- Above all, it is in the process of transforming itself so fundamentally through demography that, in a few decades at most, it will no longer make sense to call this the same society.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。