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词汇 person
释义 person
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈpɜː.sən/ us /ˈpɝː.sən/pluralpeopleuk /ˈpiː.pəl/ us /ˈpiː.pəl/formalpersons

personnoun[C] (HUMAN)


A1
a man, woman, or child: 人
Who was the first person to swim the English Channel?游过英吉利海峡的第一人是谁?
A meal at the restaurant costs about $70 for two people.在这个饭馆里两个人一顿饭的费用大约为70美元。
formalFour persons have been charged with the murder.4人被控犯有谋杀罪。
used when describing someone's character: (用于描述人的某一品质)…的人
She's an extremely kind person.她是那种非常和蔼的人。
He's nice enough as a person, but he's not the right man for this job.他是个很好的人,但不适合这份工作。
informalI don't think of him as a book person (= a person who likes books).我认为他不是个喜欢看书的人。
 in person
B2
If you do something or go somewhere in person, you do it or go there yourself: 亲自,本人
If you can't be there in person, the next best thing is watching it on TV.如果你不能亲自到场的话,在电视上观看就是退而求其次的选择了。
She's sure to get the job she wants - she's a very determined person.
I don't know how it's possible for a person to disappear without trace.我不明白一个人怎么会消失得无影无踪。
The jury has to decide whether a person is guilty or innocent of a crime.陪审团必须就一个人是否有罪作出裁决。
I think we've chosen the right person to lead the expedition.我认为我们已经找到了带领这支探险队的合适人选。
Who's the most famous person you've ever interviewed on TV?你在电视上采访过的人中谁最有名?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

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Mind and personality

personnoun[C] (GRAMMAR)


language specialized
used in grammar to describe the verbs and pronouns that refer to the different people in a conversation. The first person ("I" or "we") refers to the person speaking, the second person ("you") refers to the person being spoken to and the third person ("he", "she", "it", or "they") refers to another person or thing being spoken about or described: 人称(第一人称 I 或 we 指说话人,第二人称 you 指听话的人,第三人称 he, she, it 或 they 指谈到的人或事物)
The novel is written in the first person, so that the author and narrator seem to be the same.小说是以第一人称写的,因此作者和叙述者好像是同一个人。
"Am" is the first person singular of the verb "to be".am 是动词 to be 的第一人称单数形式。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: grammatical terms
ablative
apposition
appositive
appositively
attributively
collocate
concord
dative
declension
direct object
genitive
indirect object
nominal
plural
plurally
post-modifier
postposition
postpositional
postpositive
syntax

Grammar



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

Idioms


in the person of someone
on/about your person
-person
suffix
uk / -pɜː.sən/ us / -pɝː.sən/
used to combine with nouns to form new nouns referring to the particular job or duty that someone has. It is often used instead of -man or -woman to avoid making an unnecessary statement about the gender of the particular person: 从事(某项工作)的人(常用来代替以 -man 和 -woman 结尾的名词,以避免不必要提及性别)
spokesperson发言人
chairperson主席
business people商人

person | American Dictionary


person
noun[ C ]
us/ˈpɜr·sən/pluralpeopleus/ˈpi·pəl/persons
a man, woman, or child:
Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the moon.
The auditorium can seat about 500 people.
The plane crashed just after takeoff, killing all 29 persons aboard.
Person is also used when describing someone’s character or personality:
I don’t think of him as a book person (= someone who likes books).
She’s nice enough as a person, but she’s not right for the job.
Note:

In formal writing, the plural "persons" is sometimes preferred over "people," but "persons" is also used in news reports – At least 30 persons are dead or missing – and in the phrase "person or persons" when the number of people is not known – We expect to catch the person or persons responsible.

Idiom


in person

person | Business English


person
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈpɜːsən/uspersons
LAW
→ legal person

See also


natural person
people person

Examples of person


person
The action takes place on almost the eve of the deaths of several persons near to each other in terms of spatial proximity or affection.
Despite these limitations, we believe the present study results may be generalized to persons with moderate to severe asthma.
Substantial new resources are essential to increased access to and availability of services to low-income persons.
To include ourselves within the same framework of understanding as other persons is a condition of rationality.
In such relations two persons accept certain rights and duties toward each other.
What is the best explanation of what we all assume to be other persons?
Is it possible that such a split brain and body transfer would result in your becoming two persons?
Thus, the difference between two nonphysical persons is accountable on the grounds that they are affected by different physical objects.
More specifically, it is difficult to tell whether one person's resulting utterance (aesthetic or prosaic) is correct, or even appropriate to the situation.
The three smallest (2 - 5 % of the total sample each) included persons from only one age group.
In addition, assessments of the perceived difficulty of activities provides some information about the person's effectiveness in everyday life.
Cohorts have potentially distinctive outcomes as a result of the interaction of developing persons with distinctive aspects of the milieus in which they develop.
However, the speaker's voice and the other person's voice do not merge.
In the choice of language, persons do not simply select an instrument for mutual understanding and communication.
Whole households adjust their speech to protect certain persons.
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Collocations withperson


person

These are words often used in combination with person.

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able-bodied person
Second, every able-bodied person learns to perceive and control locomotion across a variety of surfaces (as do the young of many other species).
accused person
Consider, for instance, the right of an accused person lacking proficiency in the state language to a court-appointed interpreter.
affected person
Doing so violates this principle even if the imposition delivers an overall benefit to the affected person.
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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