people
音标发音
- 英式音标 ['piːp(ə)l]
- 美式音标 [ˈpiː.pəl]
- 国际音标 ['pi:pl]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 人；人类；民族；公民
- vt. 居住于；使住满人
词源解说
- 13世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的peupel，意为人们；最初源自拉丁语的populus，意为民族。
用法辨析
- people的基本意思是“人,人们”,是集体名词,没有复数形式,在句中作主语时,谓语动词用复数。泛指“人们”时其前不加定冠词the。
- people与定冠词the连用时,其含义为“人民(群众)”,指一个国家的或全世界的人民或者与统治阶级相对的“人民”,没有复数形式。
- people还可作“民族,种族”“被共同文化联合在一起的集体”解,是可数名词,“一个民族”是a/one people,多个民族时用其复数形式peoples。其前有a, one或every等词修饰时,谓语动词多用单数形式。用it或itself指代, people在句中作主语时,谓语动词用单数或复数均可,但以用复数者居多。
- 在口语中,people常指“家人,亲属”或“特别的场所、团体和职业的人们”,在句中作主语时,谓语动词用复数形式。
- people用作动词时意思是“使住着人,使有居民”。
- people还可表示“使…充满”,常与with连用,多用于文学语言中,且常用于被动结构。
n. (名词)
v. (动词)
英汉例句
- The doorman allowed the people in one by one.
看门的让人们一个一个进去。 - His race has peopled this island through all recorded history.
自有史料记载以来,他的族人都居于此岛。
用作名词 (n.)
用作动词 (v.)
用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.
词组短语
- bring the peoples of the world together 使世界人民团结起来
- draw the peoples of the world together 使世界人民紧密团结
- frighten the people 威胁人民
- help the people 帮助人民
- lead the people 领导人民
用作名词 (n.)
动词+～
英英字典
- men, women, and children
- all the men, women, and children who live in a particular country, or who have the same culture or language
- People are men, women, and children. People is normally used as the plural of , instead of "persons."
- The people is sometimes used to refer to ordinary men and women, in contrast to the government or the military.
- A people is all the men, women, and children of a particular country or race.
- If a place or country is peopled by a particular group of people, that group of people live there.
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专业释义
- 民族
So, Americans are the fated people elected by God to spread those ideas.
正是这种理性化的“上帝选民”意识使得美国民族主义与众不同。 - 人民
- 教区内的教徒
- 人物
- 人物
- 人们