the general population

基本解释

The goal is to keep the disease out of the general population.
卫生部的目标是使普通人群免遭艾滋病毒感染。
Rather than compare the rate of depression and migraine of the relatives to those of the general population, the study compared rates within this isolated population itself.
这项研究没有将这些亲戚的抑郁症和偏头痛发病率与普通人群相比较，而是在这个隔离的人群内进行比较。
“People with mental disabilities require even better access to quality health care [than the general population] but this is not the case in most situations even in high-income countries,” he says.
“精神残障患者甚至需要（比一般人群）有更多的机会获得优质卫生保健，然而多数情况都不是这样，甚至在高收入国家也同样如此，”他说。

But it also represents the result of higher birth rates among Hispanics in the United States compared to the general population.
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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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
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Right now, MRSA, in the general population, is killing about 19, 000 people a year.
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