In the United States, public opinion studies have shown that less than half the population believes in evolution.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

The problem with--there's a problem with gambling behavior because in a certain fraction of the population we have pathological gambling.

赌博行为有个特殊情况,在人群中总会有一小撮人,我们称之为病态赌博

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So what you have is you have maybe 20%, I think, 20% of the entire American population

所以我认为也就20%的美国人口

美国偶像 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Severe winter weather, heavy rains and landslides are believed to have destroyed much of the butterfly population.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

So, it's awkward to have to wait for a cow to get infected before you can vaccinate a population.

在给人们预防接种之前,你只有干等着,直到有一头奶牛感染了病毒才行

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"We have twenty seven individuals here, the largest managed population in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

Norway has a much smaller population than the UK and they have a lot of oil up there in the North Sea.

挪威的人口比英国的要少得多,而且他们在北海拥有大量的石油。

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In the San Francisco Bay area, for example so far this year have been Asian-American - way over their local population.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

What they have to do in order to feed the population, you have to have more land.

要怎么做才能养活这么多的人呢,你得有更多的土地

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"It sends a very strong message to the local population that if you have dangerous guests, be prepared for very bad consequences,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

I want to have the population at a number no greater than 20.

我希望人数是,不要超过20人。

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"The government has identified the critical problem we have at the moment is electricity for all the population.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

Half of Americans have at least one, so it's affecting a lot of the population.

半数美国人至少患有一项慢性疾病,可见其影响之广

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He says Kurds have left predominantly Kurdish cities to increase the population of Kirkuk,to annex it to Kurdistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

All tended to have a high slave-to-free ratio of population.

人口中奴隶所占的比例 都是非常高的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

They have predicted that up to one fifth of the Australian population about four million people could be infected by the swine flu virus.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

Given that we have the largest Internet population, it's likely that we will be able to encounter new problems before American people encounter.

中国的互联网用户是最多的，中国很有可能,将在美国人之前遇到新的问题。

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Many observers say those policies have contributed to creating an impoverished, undereducated and isolated population.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

We could have gone on and studied the average at-risk population for decades and centuries.

我们本可以继续研究几百年来的,平均受危人群。

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"You have a very large population of people stuck inside a combat area serving as a buffer between an impending government assault and Tamil Tiger resistance.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

So, the population surely dropped, and all the evidence we have supports that.

所以,人口当然下降了,我们所有的证据都支持并指向这一观点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Venetians have been concerned about the declining population of the canal city for decades.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

One, because we have such a diverse population in San Francisco,

首先，因为在旧金山有来自各个种族的人，

旧金山的公立教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Some studies have warned that half-a-million people - or about 10% of the population - will be living with HIV and AIDS by the year 2025.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

If you offer life insurance, you have life tables which give you probabilities of dying at various ages, but that's for the general population.

如果你提供人寿险,你会找张寿命表,告诉你各个年龄段的死亡率,但那是针对普通人群的

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Insurgents have pushed out the civilian population and are hiding in the buildings.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

Well, this shows what happened in the period after this vaccine was introduced into the general population so that would have been in 1954.

这表明了,疫苗在一九五四年,引入大众后的一段时间内,发生了什么样的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But for the young who make up most of the population, learning this history has been hard to do - schools have up to now just not taught it.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

Because nutrition is going to be one of the big problems of your generation; how to have enough nutritious food for the population as it grows.

因为营养,对你们这一代人是个大问题,怎样才能确保食物的质和量,能够满足日益增长人口的需求

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But you can imagine the inability to do that in a big population study with thousands and thousands of subjects, so we have to rely on data like this.

但你们可以想象在一个大样本研究中,不可能对数以千计的研究对象做这种培训,所以我们需要依靠像这样的数据

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