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词汇 people
释义 people
noun[ plural ]
uk /ˈpiː.pəl/ us /ˈpiː.pəl/
A1
men, women, and children: 人
Many people never do any exercise.许多人从来不做任何运动。
We've invited 30 people to our party.我们邀请了30个人来参加聚会。
used to refer to everyone, or informally to the group that you are speaking to: 人们;大家
People will think you've gone mad.人们会以为你疯了。
People like to be made to feel important.人们都喜欢被别人看重。
Now that we've discussed our problems, are people happy with the decisions we've made?我们既已讨论完存在的问题,大家对所作的决定还满意吗?
men and women who are involved in a particular type of work: (某行业或领域的)人
We'll have to get the people at the city council to look at these plans.我们必须请市政会的人来查看一下这些计划。
Most of her friends are media people.她的大部分朋友都是传媒界人士。
 the people
C1
the large number of ordinary men and women who do not have positions of power in society: 人民,平民,民众,老百姓
She claims to be the voice of the people.她自称是老百姓的代言人。
The president has lost the support of the people.总统失去了人民的支持。
the people's Princess平民王妃
 someone's peopleinformal
the people someone is related to: 家人,亲人,家属
Her people come from Scotland originally.她家人原籍苏格兰。
I prefer to live with my people.
His people have been in the fishing industry for generations.
Where do your people come from originally?
We married and I moved to live with her people.
There was a queue of people waiting patiently for the bus to arrive.人们排着队耐心地等待公车到达。
Many more people travel overseas these days.
It is outrageous that these buildings remain empty while thousands of people have no homes.这些大楼空着,而成千上万的人却无家可归,这真是令人难以容忍。
The old people in the village still observe the local traditions.村里的老人仍然遵守当地的传统。
On average, people who don't smoke are healthier than people who do.一般而言,不抽烟的人比抽烟的人身体健康。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People in general
beggar
bird
bod
body
coot
devil
fellow man/men
guy
loiterer
lubber
mankind
number
party
peeps
person
person of interest
rogue
sod
stiff
vessel

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Someone, anyone, no one or everyone
Workers in general
Ordinary people
Family: relations in general

Grammar



Man, mankind or people?
Traditionally, we use man to refer to all human beings, male and female, usually in contrast with other animals. However, many people consider this to be sexist, so it is better to use a different expression, such as human beings: …

Person, persons or people?
We use person in the singular to refer to any human being: …

Idioms


man/woman of the people
of all people
people
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈpiː.pəl/ us /ˈpiː.pəl/
all the men, women, and children who live in a particular country, or who have the same culture or language: 一国人民;民族
The French are known as a food-loving people.法国人是众所周知的热爱美食的民族。
a society: 社会
Customs similar to this one are found among many peoples of the world.类似这样的风俗在世界上的许多民族中都能见到。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Countries, nationalities & continents: country & nation
birthright citizenship
body politic
BRICS
citizen
compatriot
cross-national
denaturalize
domestic
dual
fatherland
internationalism
native
naturalization
naturalize
non-country
non-domestic
non-indigenous
non-national
overseas
stateless

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Society - general words

Grammar



Man, mankind or people?
Traditionally, we use man to refer to all human beings, male and female, usually in contrast with other animals. However, many people consider this to be sexist, so it is better to use a different expression, such as human beings: …

Person, persons or people?
We use person in the singular to refer to any human being: …

people | American Dictionary


people
plural noun
us/ˈpi·pəl/

peopleplural noun (PERSONS)


men, women, and children generally; pl ofperson:
There were a lot of people there.
Some people were hurt.
People can refer to a particular group mentioned:
young/old people
poor/rich people
Those people look as if they’re lost.
When you say the people, you mean the large number of ordinary men and women who do not have positions of power:
The president wanted to take his message directly to the people.
Note:

See the usage note at person.
people
noun[ C ]
us/ˈpi·pəl/

peoplenoun[C] (NATION)


a culture or nation:
It is a custom shared by many Native American peoples.
people
verb[ T ]
us/ˈpi·pəl/

peopleverb[T] (PERSONS)


If a place is peopled by a particular type of people, they have moved there or live there:
Honolulu is peopled by native Hawaiians, Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, white Americans, and others.

people | Business English


people
noun[ plural ]
uk /ˈpiːpl/us
HR
the people who work for a particular organization or person:
Firms need to keep investing both in infrastructure and their people.
Your people can talk to my people about percentages.

Examples of people


people
This is not to say, it must be noted, that interference with people's disvaluable goals is necessarily permitted.
Sounds, visual images, and faces remind the players of people or events of the past.
Only quick action would transfer people from relief to work as the president wanted.
What sort of disputes did ordinary people bring to court?
Even ordinary people are beginning to regard them as robots.
I chose it because it is recent, brief and relevant to ordinary people.
This is surprising, given that questions of revenue generation affect ordinary people in basic and sometimes very serious ways.
Having become a mass profession, science was no longer suspected of becoming elitist and separated from the life and concerns of ordinary people.
Others are reputed physically to capture people and to lock them up in secret places until they can hand them over to their white masters.
Thus, it is possible that the individuals discussed in this article formed single-person households for the purposes of taxation, but physically lived with other people.
People from this region have produced a relatively small number of music technology-related publications.
Any categorisation of chronological age obscures the physiological, psychological and social diversity of older people.
Many people with symptoms of psychological distress do not seek professional help.
The reasonable person standard enjoys a certain sort of objectivity, insofar as it protects people from each other.
Activities that have large starting capital requirements are pursued by relatively few people but yield lucrative returns.
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.

Collocations withpeople


people

These are words often used in combination with people.

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able-bodied people
They faced higher nutritional stress since the bulk of farming had to be done by a limited number of able-bodied people.
aboriginal people
This led to the significant erosion of the land base available to aboriginal people on which to pursue these traditional activities.
civilized people
Gain and sustenance represent the value realized from labor among civilized 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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