及物动词
1. （大批地）居住于，生活于，栖居于
If an area is populated by certain people or animals, those people or animals live there, often in large numbers.
1. fill with inhabitants
e.g. populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting
2. inhabit or live in
be an inhabitant of
e.g. People lived in Africa millions of years ago
The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted
this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean
deer are populating the woods