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census

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n.人口普查

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census


/'sensəs; `sɛnsəs/
n (pl ~es) official counting of a country's population or of other classes of things, eg traffic, for statistical purposes 人口统计; 人口调查; 人口普查.

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npluralcensuses[C]
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin;Origin: censere 'to make a judgment about, tax']
an official process of counting a country's population and finding out about the people
an official process of counting something for government planning
 a traffic census
1. This country has just carried out a census.
    这个国家刚刚进行过人口普查。

2. One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England,
    一位研究蜘蛛的权威对英国南部一块草坪上的蜘蛛作了一次调查。

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