- 1人口減少；人口流失
Depopulation is when a place ends up with far fewer people living in it. A village, a town, or a whole region can go through this. Sometimes it is slow: young people leave the countryside for work in the city, fewer babies are born, and the streets grow quiet. Sometimes it is sudden, after a war, a famine, or when a government forces people to move. The word is a noun — the name of that falling-off of people. The verb is , to empty a place of its people. You meet depopulation in news, geography, and government writing more than in chat; in everyday talk someone might just say the town is emptying out. Though actually, the old Latin word had a harsher feel, closer to laying a place waste. In modern English it is usually cooler than that: it reports that the numbers went down, and does not by itself say whether anyone was hurt.
組成de- (undo / take away) + populate (fill a place with people) + -ion (the act or result). Inherited from Middle English depopulacion, from Latin dēpopulātiō. By surface analysis, depopulate + -ion.
同家族的字
- depopulatethe verb: to empty a place of its people
- populationthe people living in a place; depopulation is that number falling
- populateto fill a place with people
原始詞典資料1 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。
depopulationnoun/diːˌpɒ.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
- 1
The act of depopulating or condition of being depopulated; the destruction or expulsion of inhabitants.
- A 2022 report published by the Scottish Borders Council states: "Hawick has been affected more by depopulation than any other Borders town, with all parts of the town experiencing population loss, and Hawick Central is currently experiencing the highest depopulation out of the 30 Intermediate Zones in Scottish Borders."
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