population是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 人口， (全体) 居民，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poisonous flies and gnats swarmed around by thou-sands; in vain one waved myrtle-branches about like mad; the audacious insect population did not cease to sting; nor was there a single person in the well-crammed carriage whose face was not swollen and sore from their ravenous bites.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I did not mean," he said over the soup, addressing Alexey Alexandrovitch, "mere density of population alone, but in conjunction with fundamental ideas, and not by means of principles."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The visa procured, Mr. Fogg returned on board to resume his former habits; while Passepartout, according to custom, sauntered about among the mixed population of Somalis, Banyans, Parsees, Jews, Arabs, and Europeans who comprise the twenty-five thousand inhabitants of Aden.
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS ONLY TOO GLAD TO GET OFF WITH THE LOSS OF HIS SHOESEverybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
-- But British India, properly so called, only embraces seven hundred thousand square miles, and a population of from one hundred to one hundred and ten millions of inhabitants.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told himself that however much he might relieve the sick, essentially he was a business man, in rivalry with Dr. Winter of Leopolis and Dr. Hesselink of Groningen; that though they might be honest, honesty and healing were less their purpose than making money; that to get rid of avoidable disease and produce a healthy population would be the worst thing in the world for them; and that they must all be replaced by public health officials.
-- He divided the population into two equal parts.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Owing to the proximity of the Hay Market, the number of establishments of bad character, the preponderance of the trading and working class population crowded in these streets and alleys in the heart of Petersburg, types so vari-ous were to be seen in the streets that no figure, however queer, would have caused surprise.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door was thenthrown open, and the general population began to come in, in along file: several waiting outside, while one entered, affixed hissignature, and went out.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The press and the public were kind enough to welcome the fanciful plan, and willingly joined me in the anachronism of imagining a Wessex population living under Queen Victoria; a modern Wessex of railways, the penny post, mowing and reaping machines, union workhouses, lucifer matches, labourers who could read and write, and National school children.
-- The change at the root of this has been the recent supplanting of the class of stationary cottagers, who carried on the local traditions and humours, by a population of more or less migratory labourers, which has led to a break of continuity in local history, more fatal than any other thing to the preservation of legend, folk-lore, close inter-social relations, and eccentric individualities.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I followed, when I could, the courses of the rivers; but the daemon generally avoided these, as it was here that the population of the country chiefly collected.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The civilian population had either to do without or buy at the speculators' prices, and the poor and those in moderatecircumstances were suffering increasing hardships.
-- In spite of all these trials and tribulations, Atlanta's ten thousand population had grown to double that numberduring the war.
-- The reason he hadapplied for transfer to the front, despite his useless arm, was that he realized, as the civilian population did not, theseriousness of the situation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a bag of money in his pocket, like a pudding in the cloth, and on that property married a young person in bed-furniture, with great rejoicings; the whole population of Portsmouth (nine in number at the last census) turning out on the beach to rub their own hands and shake everybody else's, and sing "Fill, fill!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Is it possible, I wonder, that there was any analogy between the case of the Coketown population and the case of the little Gradgrinds?
-- Now, besides very many babies just able to walk, there happened to be in Coketown a considerable population of babies who had been walking against time towards the infinite world, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years and more.
-- He drew up a placard, offering Twenty Pounds reward for the apprehension of Stephen Blackpool, suspected of complicity in the robbery of Coketown Bank on such a night; he described the said Stephen Blackpool by dress, complexion, estimated height, and manner, as minutely as he could; he recited how he had left the town, and in what direction he had been last seen going; he had the whole printed in great black letters on a staring broadsheet; and he caused the walls to be posted with it in the dead of night, so that it should strike upon the sight of the whole population at one blow.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is a Runic manuscript, the language of the original population of Iceland, invented by Odin himself," cried my uncle, angry at my ignorance.
-- Nearly the whole population of the town was on foot to see us land.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- New mining villages crowded on the park, and the squire felt somehow that the population was alien.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few people loitered about, but the greater part of the population was within doors.
-- Again they would come to whole towns of palaces, whose proper inmates were all banished, and which were all changed into barracks: troops of idle soldiers leaning out of the state windows, where their accoutrements hung drying on the marble architecture, and showing to the mind like hosts of rats who were (happily) eating away the props of the edifices that supported them, and must soon, with them, be smashed on the heads of the other swarms of soldiers and the swarms of priests, and the swarms of spies, who were all the ill-looking population left to be ruined, in the streets below.
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