| 单词 | people |
| 释义 | people n. & v. --n 1. (usu. as pl.) a persons composing a community, tribe, race, nation, etc. (the English people; a warlike people; the peoples of the Commonwealth). b a group of persons of a usu. specified kind (the chosen people; these people here; right-thinking people). 2. (prec. by the; treated as pl.) a the mass of people in a country etc. not having special rank or position. b these considered as an electorate (the people will reject it). 3. parents or other relatives (my people are French). 4. a subjects, armed followers, a retinue, etc. b a congregation of a parish priest etc. 5. persons in general (people do not like rudeness). --vtr. (usu. foll. by with) 1. fill with people, animals, etc.; populate. 2. (esp. as peopled adj.) inhabit; occupy; fill (thickly peopled). Phrases and idioms people's democracy a political system, esp. in E. Europe, with power regarded as invested in the people. Etymology: ME f. AF poeple, people, OF pople, peuple, f. L populus |
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