| 单词 | people |
| 释义 | people (piːpəl ) Word forms: peoples , peopling , peopled 1. plural noun A1 People are men, women, and children. People is normally used as the plural of person, instead of 'persons'. Millions of people have lost their homes. ...the people of Angola. [+ of] ...homeless young people. I don't think people should make promises they don't mean to keep. It is illegal and could endanger other people's lives. 2. plural noun The people is sometimes used to refer to ordinary men and women, in contrast to the government or the upper classes. ...the will of the people. ...a tremendous rift between the people and their leadership. 3. countable noun [with singular or plural verb] A people is all the men, women, and children of a particular country or race. ...the native peoples of Central and South America. [+ of] It's a triumph for the American people. 4. verb [usually passive] If a place or country is peopled by a particular group of people, that group of people live there. It was peopled by a fiercely independent race of peace-loving Buddhists. [be V-ed + by/with] ...a small town peopled by lay workers and families. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: inhabit, occupy, settle, populate 5. verb If something such as a story or a time in history is peopled with people of a particular kind, those people occur or exist in it. [literary] Grass's novels are peopled with outlandish characters. [be V-ed with/by n] British history of the 19th Century is peopled by energetic reformers. [be V-ed with/by n] Other people had the gift of peopling their lives with friends and colleagues. [VERB noun] Quotations: The voice of the people is the voice of GodEpistles Idioms: people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones said to mean that you have faults and so you should not criticize other people for their faults When will they learn? People in glass houses really shouldn't throw stones. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers drive a wedge between people to cause bad feelings between two people who are close in order to weaken their relationship I did try to reassure her, but that only seemed to irritate her more. That made me upset, and I started to feel Toby was driving a wedge between us. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: crowd of people There was a great crowd of people blocking our way by the church. Broken Lives (1993) She returned to the cart, which moved slowly through the dense crowd of people who had assembled to see her go to the scaffold. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII (2002) The idea is for a crowd of people to stand perfectly still, as if frozen in time, while somebody else films them. Times, Sunday Times (2016) What we do see is the crowd of people sitting in the pews. Christianity Today (2000) Holly and Kenny followed her gaze to where a crowd of people had parted, revealing a petite blonde woman in a spray-on red dress. JUST BETWEEN US (2002) Deprived of the books she craved, she studied the many diverse people around her instead. Times, Sunday Times It's a career for more diverse people, and the machismo has gone. Times, Sunday Times It has reawakened deep-seated fears about integration of ethnically diverse people, while opening divisions between member states. Times, Sunday Times High-definition leaders recruit and build worship teams that can create music to bring together ethnically diverse people. Christianity Today As he traveled throughout the region, he dined, wept, walked, relaxed, and served with diverse people, whom he saw not as objects of charity but as his friends. Christianity Today We can encourage people to volunteer, but a worker should be worthy of their wages. The Sun He used his work to encourage people to look at the world differently and smile in the process. Times, Sunday Times We are now looking at other ways of improving health - from gym schemes to introducing allowances to encourage people to cycle to work. Times, Sunday Times It would also encourage people to fish illegally, while at present the registered boats help to police the area against illegal fishermen. Times, Sunday Times We put sofas and bookcases in corridors, for example, to encourage people to sit and rest and chat. Times, Sunday Times The film gives a flavour of why everyday people feel the need to steep themselves in grease and splash through jellyfish for 15 hours. Times, Sunday Times Social media can be a useful tool for promotion, allowing businesses, celebrities, and everyday people to interact online. Christianity Today Indeed, everyday people were realizing that a map was an act of persuasion, a visual rhetoric. Smithsonian Mag Traditional culture crafts reminds us that everyday people often make extraordinary art in the course of their lives. Smithsonian Mag And we must use every tool at our disposal, from everyday people, especially in swing states. Times,Sunday Times She has been diagnosed with blepharospasm, an incurable condition affecting a handful of people. The Sun (2010) This means that for some conditions will have been properly tested on only a handful of people. Times, Sunday Times (2016) In the space of more than an hour we see only a handful of people. Times, Sunday Times (2014) He had already qualified and there was only a handful of people watching in the arena. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Only a handful of people knew he was a journalist and he was worried about the discreet filming. Times, Sunday Times (2015) You want to hire people with hinges in their backs, and keep them oiled. Christianity Today I have to write it all, play it all and then hire people to play it. The Sun We are cutting red tape and giving businesses more freedom to hire people from across the globe. The Sun He said that they would hire people with particular specialities, including the ability to develop new features for mobile devices. Times, Sunday Times Once convicted of a crime, it becomes harder to 'go straight', if only because employers are reluctant to hire people with criminal records. Times, Sunday Times First, the jury asks whether the action was dishonest according to the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people. Times, Sunday Times Financial and bureaucratic structures can achieve results only where there are sufficient educated and honest people to make them do so. Times, Sunday Times In the olden days criminals were decent, honest people. Times, Sunday Times All of the acts in the final were good, honest people, willing to work hard and dedicate themselves to achieve success. The Sun Hiring honest people, who are more goal-oriented, greatly reduces fraud. Times, Sunday Times Much of the farming in the poor world has been diverted from producing food for local people to feeding the livestock required to supply richer people with meat. THE AGE OF CONSENT (2003) The wishes of local people were upheld as paramount. The Sun (2007) But some local people are in favour of the motorway. Times, Sunday Times (2012) After much frustration I phoned to find this was a problem for many people. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Snow and ice left many people marooned in their homes, unable to get to the shops. The Sun (2011) You do not find many people who like them. Times, Sunday Times (2007) We need more people like him in police forces. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Car parking spaces will also be limited to encourage more people to walk or cycle. The Sun (2016) Many more people die from cold than heat. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Most people don't like confrontation. Christianity Today (2000) It is a place where most people know each other. Times, Sunday Times (2012) For most people the priority is to make sure their home is basically energy efficient. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The advent of social and business networking sites has revolutionised the way in which people communicate with each other. Times, Sunday Times We weren't hearing conversations; we were listening to people communicate with loudhailers. Times, Sunday Times It comes against a backdrop of a shift in consumer habits as technology transforms the way in which people communicate. Times, Sunday Times Nor do they appreciate the shift in the way people communicate - young people use these sites to make both social and work contacts. Times, Sunday Times The emoji consultant piped up, explaining 'that's just how young people communicate these days'. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 人们 Japanese: 人々 |
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