| 词汇 | little-people |
| 释义 | little people noun[ plural ] uk /ˈlɪt.əl ˌpiː.pəl/ us /ˈlɪt̬.əl ˌpiː.pəl/ ordinary people, who are not rich or powerful: He wants to put power back in the hands of local communities, give little people a voice. (alsolittle folk) small imaginary creatures, such as leprechauns, that look like small humans: （想象出来的）小精灵，小妖精 Her grandmother used to tell stories of the little people. We, the little people, have no obvious way to halt this disgusting war. My concern, as always, is for the little people of America, the poor and the middle class. We're little people with not a lot of money, facing a credit card industry that makes millions of dollars. From the way the political elite behave, it seems ethics are for little people. Piskies are the little people. They get up to all sorts of tricks in that part of the country. For centuries, tales have been told of "little people" who inhabited forests and out-of-the-way places. Ordinary people banausic civil ceremony commonalty community demotic grassroots Joe Bloggs Joe Public John Doe John Q. Public omnibus popular popularly prole public ruck the common manidiom the man/woman in the streetidiom the populace vernacular You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Mythological & legendary characters Examples of little peoplelittle people It makes it hard for us to believe that we had anything to do with begetting or raising such exquisite littlepeople. No more homunculi, no more littlepeople in the head doing or saying or experiencing things! But disco served, too, as soundtrack for a big party among various littlepeople, a ritual of radical embodiment enacted by radically stigmatised bodies. The littlepeople who found themselves in the middle were often reduced to charred pieces. They tend to hurt those whom they are designed to help: they reward the villains and the black marketeers and punish the littlepeople. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Here is a littlepeople and a loyal people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, it is not only the littlepeople who do this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it is always the littlepeople—the poor relations—who lead the way, as my noble friend said the other day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The staple needs of the littlepeople are relatively simple and relatively stable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are 87,000,000 of these people, and they are not just timid, docile littlepeople—perhaps that is one of the counts against them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those utilities then exist to look after not the littlepeople but their shareholders. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not only the big people who are caught by this taxation, but also the littlepeople. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unless we deal with the littlepeople and the little issues, the quality of life in this country will be the poorer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He believes that they are littlepeople who can be instructed by him to do what they ought to do according to his principles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should focus much more on the littlepeople. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of little people These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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