
population用法.doc
4页Population用法1.当population直接作主语时,意为“人口数”,这时谓语动词要用单数形式例如: The population of this city is six million.这个城市的人口是600万2. 当主语是表示"人口的百分之几、几分之几"时,谓语动词用复数形式 例如: About seventy percent of the population in China are farmers. 中国大约有百分之七十的人口是农民3.population多以单数形式出现,指某个国家、地区或城市的人口若以复数形式出现,则指世界不同地区的人口例如: Many parts of the world have become deserts.They once had large populations and produced plenty of crops.世界上许多地区曾经人口众多,五谷丰登,而今却成了沙漠 4.表示“某地有多少人口”有两种表达方式: 1)The population of +某地+is/was+数词2)某地+has a population of +数词例如: The population of China is about 1.3 billion.(=China has a population of about 1.3 billion.)中国大约有13亿人口。
4.询问“某地有多少人口”要用“What's the population of+某地”或“How large...?”提问,例如: What's the population of Germany?(=How large is the population of Germany?)德国的人口是多少? 5.表示人口“多”要用large或great修饰,表示人口“少”要用small修饰例如: 10,000 years ago ,the world's population was very small.一万年前世界人口很少 The population of China is much larger than that of the USA.中国的人口比美国的人口多得多。












