释义 |
overpopulationo‧ver‧pop‧u‧la‧tion /ˌəʊvəpɒpjəˈleɪʃən $ ˌoʊvərpɑːp-/ noun [uncountable] - And what had caused the overpopulation?
- At the same time overpopulation kept agricultural wages at pitiful rates.
- Below we challenge some of the major misconceptions arising from the overpopulation mentality.
- From an ecological point of view, overpopulation is a disaster no matter where it occurs or spills over.
- That army, unimaginably, would worsen under the goading pressures of famine, overpopulation, and bribery.
- The reasons in each case are the same: the sheer weight of human expansion and overpopulation.
- They had helped the refuelling and restocking of colonists' ships fleeing the overpopulation, radiation and ozone poisoning.
when there are too many people living in a particular place: efforts to reduce overpopulation—overpopulated /ˌəʊvəˈpɒpəleɪtɪd $ ˌoʊvərˈpɑːp-/ adjective: our overpopulated cities |