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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The population does not exceed 150 inhabitants, and consists of English and Americans, married to negroes and Cape Hottentots, who might bear away the palm for ugliness.
-- At the time of the DUNCAN'S visit to the island, the population consisted of three people, a Frenchman and two mulattoes, all three employed by the merchant proprietor.
-- They composed the whole living population of the island, except a few wild boars in the interior and myriads of penguins.
-- These formed the nucleus of nine provinces, four in the North Island and five in the southern island, with a total population of 184,346 inhabitants on the 30th of June, 1864."
-- The native prophets called on all the Maori population to defend the soil, and promised the extermination of the pakekas, or white men.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The population of the island, Montgomery informed me, now numbered rather more than sixty of these strange creations of Moreau's art, not counting the smaller mon-strosities which lived in the undergrowth and were without human form.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the population was yelling and scream-ing 'Clam-eater!Stareek [old man]!'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Local tales and supersti-tions thrive best in these sheltered, long settled retreats; but are trampled under foot by the shifting throng that forms the population of most of our country places.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the population of men, as well as the animals, will flow towards the latitudes which are more directly under the solar influence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, notwithstanding that a great many people continued to stare at the entry and the figures therein displayed; and remained there with great perseverance, by the hour at a time, to hear the barrel-organ played and to read the bills; and notwithstanding that they were kind enough to recommend their friends to patronise the exhibition in the like manner, until the door-way was regularly blockaded by half the population of the town, who, when they went off duty, were relieved by the other half; it was not found that the treasury was any the richer, or that the prospects of the establishment were at all encouraging.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where population is balanced and abundant, much childbearing becomes an evil rather than a blessing to the State; where violence comes but rarely and offspring are secure, there is less necessity indeed there is no necessity for an efficient family, and the specialisation of the sexes with reference to their children's needs disappears.
-- The difficulty of increasing population had been met, I guessed, and population had ceased to increase.
-- Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of population had succeeded too well, and their numbers had rather diminished than kept stationary.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited.
-- One was short, very muscular, broad-shouldered, with robust limbs, strong head, an abundance of black hair, thick moustache, a quick penetrating look, and the vivacity which characterises the population of Southern France.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Chief Butler, no doubt, reflected that the course of nature required the wealthy population to be kept up, on his account.
-- The whole population were shy of him on these various counts of indictment, but especially the last, which involved a species of domestic treason; and he soon became so confirmed in his seclusion, that his only time for walking up and down was when the evening Club were assembled at their songs and toasts and sentiments, and when the yard was nearly left to the women and children.
-- The population of the Yard were astonished at the meeting, for the two powers had never been seen there together, within the memory of the oldest Bleeding Heart.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- According to a careful calculation I have made, and which I partly base upon Captain Scoresby's estimate, of seventy tons for the largest sized Greenland whale of sixty feet in length; according to my careful calculation, I say, a Sperm Whale of the largest magnitude, between eighty-five and ninety feet in length, and something less than forty feet in its fullest circumference, such a whale will weigh at least ninety tons; so that, reckoning thirteen men to a ton, he would considerably outweigh the combined population of a whole village of one thousand one hundred inhabitants.
-- And what that is, we may soon gain some idea of, by imagining all the grave-yards, cemeteries, and family vaults of creation yielding up the live bodies of all the men, women, and children who were alive seventy-five years ago; and adding this countless host to the present human population of the globe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was as light as it was likely to be, till night came on again, and the busy morning of half the London population had begun.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter II WHAT POVERTY THREATENED--OF GRANITE AND BRASS Minnie's flat, as the one-floor resident apartments were then being called, was in a part of West Van Buren Street inhabited by families of labourers and clerks, men who had come, and were still coming, with the rush of population pouring in at the rate of 50,000 a year.
-- Its population was not so much thriving upon established commerce as upon the industries which prepared for the arrival of others.
-- In Chicago, whose population still ranged about 500,000, millionaires were not numerous.
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