1 N-PLURAL 人，人们（通常用作person的复数） People are men, women, and children. People is normally used as the plural of person, instead of 'persons'. 人，人们（通常用作person的复数）
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Millions of people have lost their homes.
数百万人流离失所。
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...the people of Angola. [+ of]
安哥拉人
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...homeless young people.
无家可归的年轻人
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I don't think people should make promises they don't mean to keep.
我认为人们不应作出自己无意信守的承诺。
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It is illegal and could endanger other people's lives.
这是非法的，可能会危及他人的生命。
2 N-PLURAL （与政府或上流社会相对的）人民，民众，大众 The people is sometimes used to refer to ordinary men and women, in contrast to the government or the upper classes. （与政府或上流社会相对的）人民，民众，大众
3 N-COUNT-COLL [with singular or plural verb] 一国人民；民族；种族 A people is all the men, women, and children of a particular country or race. 一国人民；民族；种族
4 VERB [usually passive] 居住在；定居于 If a place or country is peopled by a particular group of people, that group of people live there. 居住在；定居于
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It was peopled by a fiercely independent race of peace-loving Buddhists. [be V-ed + by/with]
那里住着一个与世隔绝的种族，人们都是爱好和平的佛教徒。
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...a small town peopled by lay workers and families. [VERB-ed]
普通工人和家庭居住的小镇
SYN inhabit, occupy, settle, populate
5 VERB （某种类型的人）出现，存在，充斥于（故事或历史时期） If something such as a story or a time in history is peopled with people of a particular kind, those people occur or exist in it. （某种类型的人）出现，存在，充斥于（故事或历史时期） [literary]
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Grass's novels are peopled with outlandish characters. [be V-ed with/by n]
格拉斯的小说里都是些稀奇古怪的人物。
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British history of the 19th century is peopled by energetic reformers. [be V-ed with/by n]
19世纪英国史上积极改革者层出不穷。
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Other people had the gift of peopling their lives with friends and colleagues. [VERB noun]
其他人善于在生活中结识许多朋友和同事。
Quotations
The voice of the people is the voice of God Alcuin Epistles
| Usage | people and peoples |
| People is plural when it refers to human beings in general or to many individual human beings together; but when people refers to a particular racial, ethnic, or national group, it's singular, and the plural is peoples: Often, people from Europe and the United States haven't even heard of the major peoples of Africa. |
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