Definition of people in English:

people

plural noun ˈpiːp(ə)lˈpipəl

1Human beings in general or considered collectively.
人，人类
the earthquake killed 30,000 people
地震造成三万人死亡。
people think I'm mad
Example sentencesExamples
- He's a very strong personality, but he talks to people as human beings and he's very honest.
- The most interesting aspect to this issue is the question of how people generate a sense of belonging.
- You can count the number of people at most general openings on your fingers and toes.
- As I grew older, my imaginary friends took on the personas of real living people.
- I feel they are aiming at older people and people in wealthy jobs more than the younger generation.
- At the scene they interviewed a local man and some other people from the general area.
- It's not going to change until people from my generation, the baby boomers, start to die.
- The Home Office had to treat these people as decent human beings and provide extra resources.
- In general, too many people put too much emphasis on historic stock market statistics.
- Each day he has looked at a key issue facing us as a nation, as a people, as frail human beings.
- I have always had an almost perverse desire to mix with people who make their living from crime.
- Who better to take advice from than the experienced people who make their living from tourism?
- The chances of people making a living without skills are reducing all the time.
- It is high among the reasons why people consult general practitioners and neurologists.
- Neither do I have a problem in general with people who wish to follow religious beliefs.
- She was bewildered due to the general lack of people running the place, apparently.
- Staff warn that as the exhibition contains human remains some people may find it disturbing.
- If so, was his stringent demand only for disciples, or was it intended for people in general?
- We don't have nearly the amount of litter because people in general take pride in their city.
- We may well decide that it was the most evil act ever perpetrated by human beings on fellow people.
Synonyms
human beings, persons, individuals, humans, mankind, humankind, the human race, Homo sapiens, humanity, the human species, mortals, (living) souls, personages, {men, women, and children}
informal folk, peeps
1. 1.1the people The citizens of a country, especially when considered in relation to those who govern them.
  人民，国民，民众
  his reforms no longer have the support of the people
  他的经济改革不再得到人民的支持。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is there for the people causing problems for law abiding citizens or residents of the community.
  It is time somebody started to govern for the people than for their own place in history.
  In the west, democracy means that the source of political authority resides in the people.
  He promised to work to the best of his ability for all of the people of the constituency.
  It is at the root of the disaffection between the mass of the people and their governments.
  Then in a sugary way he said he had no time for us and attends only to the people in his constituency.
  He was not popular with the people of England and he had to use force to maintain his control on England.
  This was equally popular with the people of Ancient Rome and going to a race was seen as a family event.
  They were locally elected officials who listened to the people and gave them what they wanted.
  The leaders rarely spoke like the people they governed and it was no disadvantage.
  He promised that his every move would be subject to the will of the people.
  The key in such a foreign policy will be to think of the people, the average citizenry first.
  It was designed to evolve, to live, and to breathe like the people that it governs.
  This way they dominate and exploit the people they govern to their own advantage.
  The voters rejected the referendum because they did not like the people who advocated it.
  But it was also a way for the new government to allow the people to do their own work.
  There is a change at a very basic level in the character of the people of a nuclear nation.
  The great tribune of the people lost the confidence of his constituency party.
  Neither in form nor in substance does the draft constitution bring power closer to the people.
  They work hard to build up good relations with people in the communities they work in.
  Synonyms
  citizens, subjects, electors, voters, taxpayers, residents, inhabitants, (general) public, citizenry, nation, population, populace, community, society
2. 1.2the people The members of a society without special rank or position.
  she is a favourite of the people
  Example sentencesExamples
  Our position is that the people of Edinburgh will take the decision in a referendum.
  All these taken into account by society and by the people around us, create our identity.
  It takes care of the people who had been rejected by society because of their disease.
  We think we provide an equitable service to all ranks and all the people we represent.
  In a supposedly civilised society, people ought to be able to tolerate each other.
  He claimed he could serve the people better in an independent position than an official one.
  One can begin to learn about the people whose history cannot be imagined from a position of privilege.
  He explains to everybody what he expects from people in each particular position.
  All the people we have trained are now members of a close network and pay fees to our union.
  I have so much positive support from the people around me, and that is a good thing to have.
  When one of the people in the middle makes a mistake they have to walk to the edge of the field and start watching again.
  I feel a bit more relaxed among my fellow exiles from the ranks of normal people.
  I don't want to pay more council tax than is fair but I do want to live in a society that cares for people.
  Can I change the terms and conditions of the people who are already working there?
  I am also aware of the plight of some of the people in the position she is talking about.
  The staff are very positive and are committed to serving the people of Bolton.
  The idea of a union is so positive yet the people around me do not seem to appreciate it.
  All the comments from people have been positive, so with any luck she'll also think the same.
  Three of the people from my science class were there, and a few others I was acquainted with.
  Culture is made up of the people in a given society and British Muslim women are part of this society.
  Synonyms
  the proletariat, the common people, the masses, the populace, the multitude, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the crowd
  derogatory the hoi polloi, the common herd, the rabble, the mob, the riff-raff, the canaille, the great unwashed, the ragtag (and bobtail), the proles, the plebs
3. 1.3US The state prosecution in a trial.
  〈美〉（审判中的）公诉人
  pre-trial statements made by the People's witnesses
  由公诉人的证人在审判前所作的陈述。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Then the People's Justice Party had a meeting of 150 people, which was really good.
  Now, I have handed to your Honours the early United States case of People v Whipple.
  We the People have the authority to do more than beg their bosses to behave a little less badly.
  This tactic allows them to be on both sides of the issue and thus unaccountable to the People.
2treated as singular or plural The members of a particular nation, community, or ethnic group.
国民，团体，民族
the native peoples of Canada
加拿大的土著民族。
Example sentencesExamples
- You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples.
- Ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples and tribal people everywhere face discrimination.
- That document will guide all Government departments on creating policy that is responsive to the needs of ethnic peoples.
- It is also hugely noticeable what winning and success can do for peoples, races, nations.
- Water has great significance for First Nations and Aboriginal peoples.
- There is also an eloquent record of tribal history of the indigenous peoples of Alaska's ethnic Indian and Inuit population.
- However, the nation's indigenous peoples have never tasted their share of Argentina's riches.
- The interests and diversity of all nations and all peoples must be respected.
- The peoples of all nations had offices there and they traded with each other and with the United States of America.
- We need to embrace Europe, including the single currency, if good relations between nations and their peoples are to be fostered.
- Nowhere is this neglect more salient than in the consideration of the experiences of indigenous peoples and ethnic minority groups.
- Other nations and peoples at similar stages of development could do themselves a good turn by following suit.
- For sure, a conflict between nations or peoples would be difficult to square.
- We reject, also, the cultural relativist view according to which these basic human rights are not appropriate for certain nations or peoples.
- How exactly does a nation or peoples get itself on the list to be humiliated at taxpayer expense and who is it that makes that final decision anyway?
- Why am I convinced that more sophisticated armaments, or bigger armies, cannot make nations and peoples secure?
- Sport, in this case at least, perhaps does have the capacity to build bridges between nations and peoples.
- We want a Europe where power flows upwards from nation states and their peoples, and not downwards from Brussels and its remote elites.
- This strategy has had the remarkable effect of forging a French nation from many diverse peoples.
- War is rolling the dice with the future of nations and peoples hanging in the balance.
Synonyms
race, tribe, clan, ethnic group, strain, stock, caste, nation, country, population, populace
archaic breed, folk, seed
3one's peopleThe supporters or employees of a person in a position of power or authority.
支持者；雇员
I've had my people watching the house for some time now
我已让我的人监视那房子一段时间了。
Example sentencesExamples
- The coaching staff consists of the team of people that is employed by the club to support the manager.
1. 3.1dated One's parents or relatives.
  〈旧〉父母；亲属，亲戚
  my people live in Warwickshire
  我父母住在沃里克郡。
  Synonyms
  family, parents, relatives, relations, folk, kinsmen, kin, kith and kin, next of kin, one's (own) flesh and blood, blood relatives/relations, nearest and dearest
  informal folks, rents
  formal kinsfolk, kinfolk

verb ˈpiːp(ə)lˈpipəl

[with object]

1(of a group of people) inhabit (a place)
（某群人）在（某地区或地方）居住
an arid mountain region peopled by warring clans
交战部落居住的干旱山区。
Example sentencesExamples
- In novel after novel, she would recreate the rarefied Oxbridge milieu, a world peopled by erudite lost souls relentlessly seeking wisdom and love.
- But today, the world is peopled by intolerant religions that still decree that their God is the only true one.
- Remote and entirely dedicated to his craft, he lived in a world peopled by a few intimate friends, a world sealed to outsiders.
- One implication of individual choice is that the American frontier from the Colonial period onward was peopled through a process of self-selection.
- This is a world peopled by actors in a play within a play in which a cleric is ‘instructing some pious politician in hypocrisy’ and a judge is giving the wronged party a hard time.
- On the negative side, there is Mitchell, who felt that a pestilent and famine ridden land was peopled by lurking savages.
- To most lawyers and clerics, the world was still peopled with good and evil spirits, but it was now deemed extremely difficult to distinguish their activities from natural causes.
- The houses were well spaced apart with trees, green grass, and a rainbow of flowers growing between them, and the streets were peopled with merchants and craftsmen going home for the evening.
- The observances recognise that the island was peopled by different groups of Indians who had settled here over the 7000 years before the European encounter.
- Living at a German mission station on the periphery of a British colonial town peopled by Africans from different backgrounds, she became familiar with a range of cultures and languages.
- Yet, the first centralizing tendencies appeared only after skirmishes between Native Americans and settlers led colonial officials to consider peopling the region as a buffer to avoid further conflict.
- His exterior scenes are peopled with many busy figures.
- The villages are densely peopled and like small rural towns in character.
- Clearly, the dance world is peopled mostly by those who started young.
- From this time on she expressed a growing certainty that the world is peopled by children who need her help.
- The heirs to the Incas and the Mayas, and those of the myriad other Indian nations that peopled the continent in the pre-Columbus era, have a long tradition of resistance.
- It was not true of the superstitious villagers who peopled the miniature municipality.
- Our minds cannot even consistently imagine a world peopled by men of different logical structures or a logical structure different from our own.
- As a result, the most powerful nation in the world is peopled by a terrified citizenry jumping at shadows.
- Alas, the real world is peopled by the satisfactory and the barely satisfactory.
Synonyms
populate, settle (in), colonize, establish oneself in, inhabit, live in, occupy
formal be, reside in, domiciled in, dwell in
1. 1.1 Fill or be present in (a place or domain)
  使（某地、环境或领域）充满
  in her imagination the flat was suddenly peopled with ghosts
  在她的想像中，那公寓里突然到处都是迷人的女鬼。
  Example sentencesExamples
  What name do we have for such a horrible void that fills what was once peopled by the living?
  It is peopled by stockbrokers, businessmen and executives, who come and go throughout the day, giving their views on matters all and sundry.
  Ghosts and actors are not immaterial even though they may embody fictional scenarios; and conversely we might say that the world we live in, the world which is present to us, is peopled with phantoms.
  The world peopled by signs of hope suddenly appears to be emptied of meaning.
  But one must feel a certain pity for him, trapped in a farce of horrendous dialogue and flatlining humour, peopled by androgynous hippy beatniks who make one glad the sixties are dead.
  To that extent the custom by which Scottish and Irish historians have peopled their pages with ‘Normans’ is misleading.
  He admires how she makes of the urban street a vast and peopled garden, and, in her roles as writer, mentor, and teacher, she emulates this throughout her life.
  In ancient times their land was supposed to have been peopled by a race of giants.
2. 1.2 Fill (a place) with inhabitants.
  it was his intention to people the town with English colonists
  他的意图是让英国殖民者在该城镇定居。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Obsessed with the sky, he watched the stars and the moon, peopling them with imaginary inhabitants.

Phrases

man (or woman) of the people

A person who comes from an ordinary background or identifies with ordinary people.
he is very much a man of the people
他的的确确是一个平民。
Example sentencesExamples
- He is wasting no time in trying to make it clear he's a man of the people.
- He burnished his credentials as a man of the people by taking the Tube to the Olympic Park.
- Their perspective is from the perch of the upper class, particularly those media celebrities who pretend they are men and women of the people.
- The approach is presumably to make her sound like a woman of the people.
- He always cultivated an image as a man of the people.
- He still revels in his reputation as a man of the people.
- He spoke with the voice of a man of the people.

Derivatives

peoplehood

noun ˈpiːplhʊdˈpipəlˌ(h)ʊd

mass noun

1The fact or state of being a community of people of shared race or nationality, often with the implication of associated status or rights.
they desire to have their peoplehood recognized constitutionally
1. 1.1 Awareness of one's identity as a member of a particular people.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is impossible to set up legitimate global authorities because there is no global democracy, no sense of common peoplehood and trust.
- Critics who deride Jewish dietary laws as arbitrary, repressive, or irrelevant ignore the power of this everyday tradition to preserve our peoplehood and deepen our humanity.
- In retelling it we bring ourselves out from our own narrow places, to freedom, to peoplehood, to connection with God.
- my deep sense of peoplehood gave me the fortitude to fight the difficult battles

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French poeple, from Latin populus 'populace'.

People is from Anglo-Norman French poeple, from Latin populus ‘populace’, also the source of words such as population (mid 16th century); populace (late 16th century); and popular (Late Middle English) originally ‘prevalent among the general public’: with ‘liked and admired’ early 17th century. The phrase of all people expressing disbelief about somebody dates from the 1700s; the capitalized form in the phrase the People referring in US legal contexts to the State prosecution the People versus…dates from the early 19th century. See also public

Rhymes

peepul, steeple

Definition of people in US English:

people

plural nounˈpipəlˈpēpəl

1Human beings in general or considered collectively.
人，人类
the earthquake killed 30,000 people
地震造成三万人死亡。
Example sentencesExamples
- The chances of people making a living without skills are reducing all the time.
- Each day he has looked at a key issue facing us as a nation, as a people, as frail human beings.
- We don't have nearly the amount of litter because people in general take pride in their city.
- Staff warn that as the exhibition contains human remains some people may find it disturbing.
- In general, too many people put too much emphasis on historic stock market statistics.
- It is high among the reasons why people consult general practitioners and neurologists.
- At the scene they interviewed a local man and some other people from the general area.
- The most interesting aspect to this issue is the question of how people generate a sense of belonging.
- As I grew older, my imaginary friends took on the personas of real living people.
- We may well decide that it was the most evil act ever perpetrated by human beings on fellow people.
- The Home Office had to treat these people as decent human beings and provide extra resources.
- She was bewildered due to the general lack of people running the place, apparently.
- I feel they are aiming at older people and people in wealthy jobs more than the younger generation.
- If so, was his stringent demand only for disciples, or was it intended for people in general?
- I have always had an almost perverse desire to mix with people who make their living from crime.
- You can count the number of people at most general openings on your fingers and toes.
- Who better to take advice from than the experienced people who make their living from tourism?
- Neither do I have a problem in general with people who wish to follow religious beliefs.
- It's not going to change until people from my generation, the baby boomers, start to die.
- He's a very strong personality, but he talks to people as human beings and he's very honest.
Synonyms
human beings, persons, individuals, humans, mankind, humankind, the human race, homo sapiens, humanity, the human species, mortals, souls, living souls, personages, men, women, and children
1. 1.1the people The citizens of a country, especially when considered in relation to those who govern them.
  人民，国民，民众
  his economic reforms no longer have the support of the people
  他的经济改革不再得到人民的支持。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They were locally elected officials who listened to the people and gave them what they wanted.
  There is a change at a very basic level in the character of the people of a nuclear nation.
  Neither in form nor in substance does the draft constitution bring power closer to the people.
  It is at the root of the disaffection between the mass of the people and their governments.
  It was designed to evolve, to live, and to breathe like the people that it governs.
  The key in such a foreign policy will be to think of the people, the average citizenry first.
  They work hard to build up good relations with people in the communities they work in.
  Then in a sugary way he said he had no time for us and attends only to the people in his constituency.
  The great tribune of the people lost the confidence of his constituency party.
  But it was also a way for the new government to allow the people to do their own work.
  It is time somebody started to govern for the people than for their own place in history.
  This was equally popular with the people of Ancient Rome and going to a race was seen as a family event.
  The leaders rarely spoke like the people they governed and it was no disadvantage.
  In the west, democracy means that the source of political authority resides in the people.
  He promised that his every move would be subject to the will of the people.
  He was not popular with the people of England and he had to use force to maintain his control on England.
  The voters rejected the referendum because they did not like the people who advocated it.
  This way they dominate and exploit the people they govern to their own advantage.
  He promised to work to the best of his ability for all of the people of the constituency.
  It is there for the people causing problems for law abiding citizens or residents of the community.
  Synonyms
  citizens, subjects, electors, voters, taxpayers, residents, inhabitants, public, general public, citizenry, nation, population, populace, community, society
2. 1.2the people Those without special rank or position in society; the populace.
  平民，老百姓
  he is very much a man of the people
  他的的确确是一个平民。
  Example sentencesExamples
  All the comments from people have been positive, so with any luck she'll also think the same.
  The idea of a union is so positive yet the people around me do not seem to appreciate it.
  All the people we have trained are now members of a close network and pay fees to our union.
  I have so much positive support from the people around me, and that is a good thing to have.
  I am also aware of the plight of some of the people in the position she is talking about.
  He claimed he could serve the people better in an independent position than an official one.
  We think we provide an equitable service to all ranks and all the people we represent.
  Our position is that the people of Edinburgh will take the decision in a referendum.
  The staff are very positive and are committed to serving the people of Bolton.
  Can I change the terms and conditions of the people who are already working there?
  Three of the people from my science class were there, and a few others I was acquainted with.
  Culture is made up of the people in a given society and British Muslim women are part of this society.
  All these taken into account by society and by the people around us, create our identity.
  He explains to everybody what he expects from people in each particular position.
  One can begin to learn about the people whose history cannot be imagined from a position of privilege.
  It takes care of the people who had been rejected by society because of their disease.
  I don't want to pay more council tax than is fair but I do want to live in a society that cares for people.
  In a supposedly civilised society, people ought to be able to tolerate each other.
  When one of the people in the middle makes a mistake they have to walk to the edge of the field and start watching again.
  I feel a bit more relaxed among my fellow exiles from the ranks of normal people.
  Synonyms
  the proletariat, the common people, the masses, the populace, the multitude, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the crowd
3. 1.3the PeopleUS The state prosecution in a trial.
  〈美〉（审判中的）公诉人
  pretrial statements made by the People's witnesses
  由公诉人的证人在审判前所作的陈述。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Now, I have handed to your Honours the early United States case of People v Whipple.
  We the People have the authority to do more than beg their bosses to behave a little less badly.
  Then the People's Justice Party had a meeting of 150 people, which was really good.
  This tactic allows them to be on both sides of the issue and thus unaccountable to the People.
2treated as singular or plural The men, women, and children of a particular nation, community, or ethnic group.
国民，团体，民族
the native peoples of Canada
加拿大的土著民族。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sport, in this case at least, perhaps does have the capacity to build bridges between nations and peoples.
- For sure, a conflict between nations or peoples would be difficult to square.
- That document will guide all Government departments on creating policy that is responsive to the needs of ethnic peoples.
- We reject, also, the cultural relativist view according to which these basic human rights are not appropriate for certain nations or peoples.
- Water has great significance for First Nations and Aboriginal peoples.
- How exactly does a nation or peoples get itself on the list to be humiliated at taxpayer expense and who is it that makes that final decision anyway?
- You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples.
- Why am I convinced that more sophisticated armaments, or bigger armies, cannot make nations and peoples secure?
- It is also hugely noticeable what winning and success can do for peoples, races, nations.
- Nowhere is this neglect more salient than in the consideration of the experiences of indigenous peoples and ethnic minority groups.
- The interests and diversity of all nations and all peoples must be respected.
- We want a Europe where power flows upwards from nation states and their peoples, and not downwards from Brussels and its remote elites.
- However, the nation's indigenous peoples have never tasted their share of Argentina's riches.
- Ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples and tribal people everywhere face discrimination.
- There is also an eloquent record of tribal history of the indigenous peoples of Alaska's ethnic Indian and Inuit population.
- The peoples of all nations had offices there and they traded with each other and with the United States of America.
- We need to embrace Europe, including the single currency, if good relations between nations and their peoples are to be fostered.
- Other nations and peoples at similar stages of development could do themselves a good turn by following suit.
- This strategy has had the remarkable effect of forging a French nation from many diverse peoples.
- War is rolling the dice with the future of nations and peoples hanging in the balance.
Synonyms
race, tribe, clan, ethnic group, strain, stock, caste, nation, country, population, populace
3one's peopleThe supporters or employees of a person in a position of power or authority.
支持者；雇员
I've had my people watching the house for some time now
我已让我的人监视那房子一段时间了。
Example sentencesExamples
- The coaching staff consists of the team of people that is employed by the club to support the manager.
1. 3.1dated A person's parents or relatives.
  〈旧〉父母；亲属，亲戚
  my people live in West Virginia
  Synonyms
  family, parents, relatives, relations, folk, kinsmen, kin, kith and kin, next of kin, one's flesh and blood, one's own flesh and blood, blood relations, blood relatives, nearest and dearest

verbˈpipəlˈpēpəl

[with object]

1(of a particular group of people) inhabit (an area or place)
（某群人）在（某地区或地方）居住
an arid mountain region peopled by warring clans
交战部落居住的干旱山区。
Example sentencesExamples
- The villages are densely peopled and like small rural towns in character.
- From this time on she expressed a growing certainty that the world is peopled by children who need her help.
- Alas, the real world is peopled by the satisfactory and the barely satisfactory.
- Clearly, the dance world is peopled mostly by those who started young.
- Our minds cannot even consistently imagine a world peopled by men of different logical structures or a logical structure different from our own.
- His exterior scenes are peopled with many busy figures.
- Yet, the first centralizing tendencies appeared only after skirmishes between Native Americans and settlers led colonial officials to consider peopling the region as a buffer to avoid further conflict.
- To most lawyers and clerics, the world was still peopled with good and evil spirits, but it was now deemed extremely difficult to distinguish their activities from natural causes.
- The houses were well spaced apart with trees, green grass, and a rainbow of flowers growing between them, and the streets were peopled with merchants and craftsmen going home for the evening.
- One implication of individual choice is that the American frontier from the Colonial period onward was peopled through a process of self-selection.
- In novel after novel, she would recreate the rarefied Oxbridge milieu, a world peopled by erudite lost souls relentlessly seeking wisdom and love.
- The heirs to the Incas and the Mayas, and those of the myriad other Indian nations that peopled the continent in the pre-Columbus era, have a long tradition of resistance.
- The observances recognise that the island was peopled by different groups of Indians who had settled here over the 7000 years before the European encounter.
- Living at a German mission station on the periphery of a British colonial town peopled by Africans from different backgrounds, she became familiar with a range of cultures and languages.
- This is a world peopled by actors in a play within a play in which a cleric is ‘instructing some pious politician in hypocrisy’ and a judge is giving the wronged party a hard time.
- It was not true of the superstitious villagers who peopled the miniature municipality.
- On the negative side, there is Mitchell, who felt that a pestilent and famine ridden land was peopled by lurking savages.
- As a result, the most powerful nation in the world is peopled by a terrified citizenry jumping at shadows.
- But today, the world is peopled by intolerant religions that still decree that their God is the only true one.
- Remote and entirely dedicated to his craft, he lived in a world peopled by a few intimate friends, a world sealed to outsiders.
Synonyms
populate, settle, settle in, colonize, establish oneself in, inhabit, live in, occupy
1. 1.1 Fill or be present in (a place, environment, or domain)
  使（某地、环境或领域）充满
  the street is peopled with ragamuffin hippies
  Example sentencesExamples
  What name do we have for such a horrible void that fills what was once peopled by the living?
  It is peopled by stockbrokers, businessmen and executives, who come and go throughout the day, giving their views on matters all and sundry.
  To that extent the custom by which Scottish and Irish historians have peopled their pages with ‘Normans’ is misleading.
  Ghosts and actors are not immaterial even though they may embody fictional scenarios; and conversely we might say that the world we live in, the world which is present to us, is peopled with phantoms.
  In ancient times their land was supposed to have been peopled by a race of giants.
  The world peopled by signs of hope suddenly appears to be emptied of meaning.
  He admires how she makes of the urban street a vast and peopled garden, and, in her roles as writer, mentor, and teacher, she emulates this throughout her life.
  But one must feel a certain pity for him, trapped in a farce of horrendous dialogue and flatlining humour, peopled by androgynous hippy beatniks who make one glad the sixties are dead.
2. 1.2 Fill (an area or place) with a particular group of inhabitants.
  使（某地区或地方）住满人
  it was his intention to people the town with English colonists
  他的意图是让英国殖民者在该城镇定居。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Obsessed with the sky, he watched the stars and the moon, peopling them with imaginary inhabitants.

Usage

See person

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French poeple, from Latin populus ‘populace’.

单词	people
释义	Definition of people in English: people plural noun ˈpiːp(ə)lˈpipəl 1Human beings in general or considered collectively. 人，人类 the earthquake killed 30,000 people 地震造成三万人死亡。 people think I'm mad Example sentencesExamples He's a very strong personality, but he talks to people as human beings and he's very honest. The most interesting aspect to this issue is the question of how people generate a sense of belonging. You can count the number of people at most general openings on your fingers and toes. As I grew older, my imaginary friends took on the personas of real living people. I feel they are aiming at older people and people in wealthy jobs more than the younger generation. At the scene they interviewed a local man and some other people from the general area. It's not going to change until people from my generation, the baby boomers, start to die. The Home Office had to treat these people as decent human beings and provide extra resources. In general, too many people put too much emphasis on historic stock market statistics. Each day he has looked at a key issue facing us as a nation, as a people, as frail human beings. I have always had an almost perverse desire to mix with people who make their living from crime. Who better to take advice from than the experienced people who make their living from tourism? The chances of people making a living without skills are reducing all the time. It is high among the reasons why people consult general practitioners and neurologists. Neither do I have a problem in general with people who wish to follow religious beliefs. She was bewildered due to the general lack of people running the place, apparently. Staff warn that as the exhibition contains human remains some people may find it disturbing. If so, was his stringent demand only for disciples, or was it intended for people in general? We don't have nearly the amount of litter because people in general take pride in their city. We may well decide that it was the most evil act ever perpetrated by human beings on fellow people. Synonyms human beings, persons, individuals, humans, mankind, humankind, the human race, Homo sapiens, humanity, the human species, mortals, (living) souls, personages, {men, women, and children} informal folk, peeps 1.1the people The citizens of a country, especially when considered in relation to those who govern them. 人民，国民，民众 his reforms no longer have the support of the people 他的经济改革不再得到人民的支持。 Example sentencesExamples It is there for the people causing problems for law abiding citizens or residents of the community. It is time somebody started to govern for the people than for their own place in history. In the west, democracy means that the source of political authority resides in the people. He promised to work to the best of his ability for all of the people of the constituency. It is at the root of the disaffection between the mass of the people and their governments. Then in a sugary way he said he had no time for us and attends only to the people in his constituency. He was not popular with the people of England and he had to use force to maintain his control on England. This was equally popular with the people of Ancient Rome and going to a race was seen as a family event. They were locally elected officials who listened to the people and gave them what they wanted. The leaders rarely spoke like the people they governed and it was no disadvantage. He promised that his every move would be subject to the will of the people. The key in such a foreign policy will be to think of the people, the average citizenry first. It was designed to evolve, to live, and to breathe like the people that it governs. This way they dominate and exploit the people they govern to their own advantage. The voters rejected the referendum because they did not like the people who advocated it. But it was also a way for the new government to allow the people to do their own work. There is a change at a very basic level in the character of the people of a nuclear nation. The great tribune of the people lost the confidence of his constituency party. Neither in form nor in substance does the draft constitution bring power closer to the people. They work hard to build up good relations with people in the communities they work in. Synonyms citizens, subjects, electors, voters, taxpayers, residents, inhabitants, (general) public, citizenry, nation, population, populace, community, society 1.2the people The members of a society without special rank or position. she is a favourite of the people Example sentencesExamples Our position is that the people of Edinburgh will take the decision in a referendum. All these taken into account by society and by the people around us, create our identity. It takes care of the people who had been rejected by society because of their disease. We think we provide an equitable service to all ranks and all the people we represent. In a supposedly civilised society, people ought to be able to tolerate each other. He claimed he could serve the people better in an independent position than an official one. One can begin to learn about the people whose history cannot be imagined from a position of privilege. He explains to everybody what he expects from people in each particular position. All the people we have trained are now members of a close network and pay fees to our union. I have so much positive support from the people around me, and that is a good thing to have. When one of the people in the middle makes a mistake they have to walk to the edge of the field and start watching again. I feel a bit more relaxed among my fellow exiles from the ranks of normal people. I don't want to pay more council tax than is fair but I do want to live in a society that cares for people. Can I change the terms and conditions of the people who are already working there? I am also aware of the plight of some of the people in the position she is talking about. The staff are very positive and are committed to serving the people of Bolton. The idea of a union is so positive yet the people around me do not seem to appreciate it. All the comments from people have been positive, so with any luck she'll also think the same. Three of the people from my science class were there, and a few others I was acquainted with. Culture is made up of the people in a given society and British Muslim women are part of this society. Synonyms the proletariat, the common people, the masses, the populace, the multitude, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the crowd derogatory the hoi polloi, the common herd, the rabble, the mob, the riff-raff, the canaille, the great unwashed, the ragtag (and bobtail), the proles, the plebs 1.3US The state prosecution in a trial. 〈美〉（审判中的）公诉人 pre-trial statements made by the People's witnesses 由公诉人的证人在审判前所作的陈述。 Example sentencesExamples Then the People's Justice Party had a meeting of 150 people, which was really good. Now, I have handed to your Honours the early United States case of People v Whipple. We the People have the authority to do more than beg their bosses to behave a little less badly. This tactic allows them to be on both sides of the issue and thus unaccountable to the People. 2treated as singular or plural The members of a particular nation, community, or ethnic group. 国民，团体，民族 the native peoples of Canada 加拿大的土著民族。 Example sentencesExamples You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. Ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples and tribal people everywhere face discrimination. That document will guide all Government departments on creating policy that is responsive to the needs of ethnic peoples. It is also hugely noticeable what winning and success can do for peoples, races, nations. Water has great significance for First Nations and Aboriginal peoples. There is also an eloquent record of tribal history of the indigenous peoples of Alaska's ethnic Indian and Inuit population. However, the nation's indigenous peoples have never tasted their share of Argentina's riches. The interests and diversity of all nations and all peoples must be respected. The peoples of all nations had offices there and they traded with each other and with the United States of America. We need to embrace Europe, including the single currency, if good relations between nations and their peoples are to be fostered. Nowhere is this neglect more salient than in the consideration of the experiences of indigenous peoples and ethnic minority groups. Other nations and peoples at similar stages of development could do themselves a good turn by following suit. For sure, a conflict between nations or peoples would be difficult to square. We reject, also, the cultural relativist view according to which these basic human rights are not appropriate for certain nations or peoples. How exactly does a nation or peoples get itself on the list to be humiliated at taxpayer expense and who is it that makes that final decision anyway? Why am I convinced that more sophisticated armaments, or bigger armies, cannot make nations and peoples secure? Sport, in this case at least, perhaps does have the capacity to build bridges between nations and peoples. We want a Europe where power flows upwards from nation states and their peoples, and not downwards from Brussels and its remote elites. This strategy has had the remarkable effect of forging a French nation from many diverse peoples. War is rolling the dice with the future of nations and peoples hanging in the balance. Synonyms race, tribe, clan, ethnic group, strain, stock, caste, nation, country, population, populace archaic breed, folk, seed 3one's peopleThe supporters or employees of a person in a position of power or authority. 支持者；雇员 I've had my people watching the house for some time now 我已让我的人监视那房子一段时间了。 Example sentencesExamples The coaching staff consists of the team of people that is employed by the club to support the manager. 3.1dated One's parents or relatives. 〈旧〉父母；亲属，亲戚 my people live in Warwickshire 我父母住在沃里克郡。 Synonyms family, parents, relatives, relations, folk, kinsmen, kin, kith and kin, next of kin, one's (own) flesh and blood, blood relatives/relations, nearest and dearest informal folks, rents formal kinsfolk, kinfolk verb ˈpiːp(ə)lˈpipəl [with object] 1(of a group of people) inhabit (a place) （某群人）在（某地区或地方）居住 an arid mountain region peopled by warring clans 交战部落居住的干旱山区。 Example sentencesExamples In novel after novel, she would recreate the rarefied Oxbridge milieu, a world peopled by erudite lost souls relentlessly seeking wisdom and love. But today, the world is peopled by intolerant religions that still decree that their God is the only true one. Remote and entirely dedicated to his craft, he lived in a world peopled by a few intimate friends, a world sealed to outsiders. One implication of individual choice is that the American frontier from the Colonial period onward was peopled through a process of self-selection. This is a world peopled by actors in a play within a play in which a cleric is ‘instructing some pious politician in hypocrisy’ and a judge is giving the wronged party a hard time. On the negative side, there is Mitchell, who felt that a pestilent and famine ridden land was peopled by lurking savages. To most lawyers and clerics, the world was still peopled with good and evil spirits, but it was now deemed extremely difficult to distinguish their activities from natural causes. The houses were well spaced apart with trees, green grass, and a rainbow of flowers growing between them, and the streets were peopled with merchants and craftsmen going home for the evening. The observances recognise that the island was peopled by different groups of Indians who had settled here over the 7000 years before the European encounter. Living at a German mission station on the periphery of a British colonial town peopled by Africans from different backgrounds, she became familiar with a range of cultures and languages. Yet, the first centralizing tendencies appeared only after skirmishes between Native Americans and settlers led colonial officials to consider peopling the region as a buffer to avoid further conflict. His exterior scenes are peopled with many busy figures. The villages are densely peopled and like small rural towns in character. Clearly, the dance world is peopled mostly by those who started young. From this time on she expressed a growing certainty that the world is peopled by children who need her help. The heirs to the Incas and the Mayas, and those of the myriad other Indian nations that peopled the continent in the pre-Columbus era, have a long tradition of resistance. It was not true of the superstitious villagers who peopled the miniature municipality. Our minds cannot even consistently imagine a world peopled by men of different logical structures or a logical structure different from our own. As a result, the most powerful nation in the world is peopled by a terrified citizenry jumping at shadows. Alas, the real world is peopled by the satisfactory and the barely satisfactory. Synonyms populate, settle (in), colonize, establish oneself in, inhabit, live in, occupy formal be, reside in, domiciled in, dwell in 1.1 Fill or be present in (a place or domain) 使（某地、环境或领域）充满 in her imagination the flat was suddenly peopled with ghosts 在她的想像中，那公寓里突然到处都是迷人的女鬼。 Example sentencesExamples What name do we have for such a horrible void that fills what was once peopled by the living? It is peopled by stockbrokers, businessmen and executives, who come and go throughout the day, giving their views on matters all and sundry. Ghosts and actors are not immaterial even though they may embody fictional scenarios; and conversely we might say that the world we live in, the world which is present to us, is peopled with phantoms. The world peopled by signs of hope suddenly appears to be emptied of meaning. But one must feel a certain pity for him, trapped in a farce of horrendous dialogue and flatlining humour, peopled by androgynous hippy beatniks who make one glad the sixties are dead. To that extent the custom by which Scottish and Irish historians have peopled their pages with ‘Normans’ is misleading. He admires how she makes of the urban street a vast and peopled garden, and, in her roles as writer, mentor, and teacher, she emulates this throughout her life. In ancient times their land was supposed to have been peopled by a race of giants. 1.2 Fill (a place) with inhabitants. it was his intention to people the town with English colonists 他的意图是让英国殖民者在该城镇定居。 Example sentencesExamples Obsessed with the sky, he watched the stars and the moon, peopling them with imaginary inhabitants. Phrases man (or woman) of the people A person who comes from an ordinary background or identifies with ordinary people. he is very much a man of the people 他的的确确是一个平民。 Example sentencesExamples He is wasting no time in trying to make it clear he's a man of the people. He burnished his credentials as a man of the people by taking the Tube to the Olympic Park. Their perspective is from the perch of the upper class, particularly those media celebrities who pretend they are men and women of the people. The approach is presumably to make her sound like a woman of the people. He always cultivated an image as a man of the people. He still revels in his reputation as a man of the people. He spoke with the voice of a man of the people. Derivatives peoplehood noun ˈpiːplhʊdˈpipəlˌ(h)ʊd mass noun 1The fact or state of being a community of people of shared race or nationality, often with the implication of associated status or rights. they desire to have their peoplehood recognized constitutionally 1.1 Awareness of one's identity as a member of a particular people. Example sentencesExamples It is impossible to set up legitimate global authorities because there is no global democracy, no sense of common peoplehood and trust. Critics who deride Jewish dietary laws as arbitrary, repressive, or irrelevant ignore the power of this everyday tradition to preserve our peoplehood and deepen our humanity. In retelling it we bring ourselves out from our own narrow places, to freedom, to peoplehood, to connection with God. my deep sense of peoplehood gave me the fortitude to fight the difficult battles Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French poeple, from Latin populus 'populace'. People is from Anglo-Norman French poeple, from Latin populus ‘populace’, also the source of words such as population (mid 16th century); populace (late 16th century); and popular (Late Middle English) originally ‘prevalent among the general public’: with ‘liked and admired’ early 17th century. The phrase of all people expressing disbelief about somebody dates from the 1700s; the capitalized form in the phrase the People referring in US legal contexts to the State prosecution the People versus…dates from the early 19th century. See also public Rhymes peepul, steeple noun..1 phr. Definition of people in US English: people plural nounˈpipəlˈpēpəl 1Human beings in general or considered collectively. 人，人类 the earthquake killed 30,000 people 地震造成三万人死亡。 Example sentencesExamples The chances of people making a living without skills are reducing all the time. Each day he has looked at a key issue facing us as a nation, as a people, as frail human beings. We don't have nearly the amount of litter because people in general take pride in their city. Staff warn that as the exhibition contains human remains some people may find it disturbing. In general, too many people put too much emphasis on historic stock market statistics. It is high among the reasons why people consult general practitioners and neurologists. At the scene they interviewed a local man and some other people from the general area. The most interesting aspect to this issue is the question of how people generate a sense of belonging. As I grew older, my imaginary friends took on the personas of real living people. We may well decide that it was the most evil act ever perpetrated by human beings on fellow people. The Home Office had to treat these people as decent human beings and provide extra resources. She was bewildered due to the general lack of people running the place, apparently. I feel they are aiming at older people and people in wealthy jobs more than the younger generation. If so, was his stringent demand only for disciples, or was it intended for people in general? I have always had an almost perverse desire to mix with people who make their living from crime. You can count the number of people at most general openings on your fingers and toes. Who better to take advice from than the experienced people who make their living from tourism? Neither do I have a problem in general with people who wish to follow religious beliefs. It's not going to change until people from my generation, the baby boomers, start to die. He's a very strong personality, but he talks to people as human beings and he's very honest. Synonyms human beings, persons, individuals, humans, mankind, humankind, the human race, homo sapiens, humanity, the human species, mortals, souls, living souls, personages, men, women, and children 1.1the people The citizens of a country, especially when considered in relation to those who govern them. 人民，国民，民众 his economic reforms no longer have the support of the people 他的经济改革不再得到人民的支持。 Example sentencesExamples They were locally elected officials who listened to the people and gave them what they wanted. There is a change at a very basic level in the character of the people of a nuclear nation. Neither in form nor in substance does the draft constitution bring power closer to the people. It is at the root of the disaffection between the mass of the people and their governments. It was designed to evolve, to live, and to breathe like the people that it governs. The key in such a foreign policy will be to think of the people, the average citizenry first. They work hard to build up good relations with people in the communities they work in. Then in a sugary way he said he had no time for us and attends only to the people in his constituency. The great tribune of the people lost the confidence of his constituency party. But it was also a way for the new government to allow the people to do their own work. It is time somebody started to govern for the people than for their own place in history. This was equally popular with the people of Ancient Rome and going to a race was seen as a family event. The leaders rarely spoke like the people they governed and it was no disadvantage. In the west, democracy means that the source of political authority resides in the people. He promised that his every move would be subject to the will of the people. He was not popular with the people of England and he had to use force to maintain his control on England. The voters rejected the referendum because they did not like the people who advocated it. This way they dominate and exploit the people they govern to their own advantage. He promised to work to the best of his ability for all of the people of the constituency. It is there for the people causing problems for law abiding citizens or residents of the community. Synonyms citizens, subjects, electors, voters, taxpayers, residents, inhabitants, public, general public, citizenry, nation, population, populace, community, society 1.2the people Those without special rank or position in society; the populace. 平民，老百姓 he is very much a man of the people 他的的确确是一个平民。 Example sentencesExamples All the comments from people have been positive, so with any luck she'll also think the same. The idea of a union is so positive yet the people around me do not seem to appreciate it. All the people we have trained are now members of a close network and pay fees to our union. I have so much positive support from the people around me, and that is a good thing to have. I am also aware of the plight of some of the people in the position she is talking about. He claimed he could serve the people better in an independent position than an official one. We think we provide an equitable service to all ranks and all the people we represent. Our position is that the people of Edinburgh will take the decision in a referendum. The staff are very positive and are committed to serving the people of Bolton. Can I change the terms and conditions of the people who are already working there? Three of the people from my science class were there, and a few others I was acquainted with. Culture is made up of the people in a given society and British Muslim women are part of this society. All these taken into account by society and by the people around us, create our identity. He explains to everybody what he expects from people in each particular position. One can begin to learn about the people whose history cannot be imagined from a position of privilege. It takes care of the people who had been rejected by society because of their disease. I don't want to pay more council tax than is fair but I do want to live in a society that cares for people. In a supposedly civilised society, people ought to be able to tolerate each other. When one of the people in the middle makes a mistake they have to walk to the edge of the field and start watching again. I feel a bit more relaxed among my fellow exiles from the ranks of normal people. Synonyms the proletariat, the common people, the masses, the populace, the multitude, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the crowd 1.3the PeopleUS The state prosecution in a trial. 〈美〉（审判中的）公诉人 pretrial statements made by the People's witnesses 由公诉人的证人在审判前所作的陈述。 Example sentencesExamples Now, I have handed to your Honours the early United States case of People v Whipple. We the People have the authority to do more than beg their bosses to behave a little less badly. Then the People's Justice Party had a meeting of 150 people, which was really good. This tactic allows them to be on both sides of the issue and thus unaccountable to the People. 2treated as singular or plural The men, women, and children of a particular nation, community, or ethnic group. 国民，团体，民族 the native peoples of Canada 加拿大的土著民族。 Example sentencesExamples Sport, in this case at least, perhaps does have the capacity to build bridges between nations and peoples. For sure, a conflict between nations or peoples would be difficult to square. That document will guide all Government departments on creating policy that is responsive to the needs of ethnic peoples. We reject, also, the cultural relativist view according to which these basic human rights are not appropriate for certain nations or peoples. Water has great significance for First Nations and Aboriginal peoples. How exactly does a nation or peoples get itself on the list to be humiliated at taxpayer expense and who is it that makes that final decision anyway? You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. Why am I convinced that more sophisticated armaments, or bigger armies, cannot make nations and peoples secure? It is also hugely noticeable what winning and success can do for peoples, races, nations. Nowhere is this neglect more salient than in the consideration of the experiences of indigenous peoples and ethnic minority groups. The interests and diversity of all nations and all peoples must be respected. We want a Europe where power flows upwards from nation states and their peoples, and not downwards from Brussels and its remote elites. However, the nation's indigenous peoples have never tasted their share of Argentina's riches. Ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples and tribal people everywhere face discrimination. There is also an eloquent record of tribal history of the indigenous peoples of Alaska's ethnic Indian and Inuit population. The peoples of all nations had offices there and they traded with each other and with the United States of America. We need to embrace Europe, including the single currency, if good relations between nations and their peoples are to be fostered. Other nations and peoples at similar stages of development could do themselves a good turn by following suit. This strategy has had the remarkable effect of forging a French nation from many diverse peoples. War is rolling the dice with the future of nations and peoples hanging in the balance. Synonyms race, tribe, clan, ethnic group, strain, stock, caste, nation, country, population, populace 3one's peopleThe supporters or employees of a person in a position of power or authority. 支持者；雇员 I've had my people watching the house for some time now 我已让我的人监视那房子一段时间了。 Example sentencesExamples The coaching staff consists of the team of people that is employed by the club to support the manager. 3.1dated A person's parents or relatives. 〈旧〉父母；亲属，亲戚 my people live in West Virginia Synonyms family, parents, relatives, relations, folk, kinsmen, kin, kith and kin, next of kin, one's flesh and blood, one's own flesh and blood, blood relations, blood relatives, nearest and dearest verbˈpipəlˈpēpəl [with object] 1(of a particular group of people) inhabit (an area or place) （某群人）在（某地区或地方）居住 an arid mountain region peopled by warring clans 交战部落居住的干旱山区。 Example sentencesExamples The villages are densely peopled and like small rural towns in character. From this time on she expressed a growing certainty that the world is peopled by children who need her help. Alas, the real world is peopled by the satisfactory and the barely satisfactory. Clearly, the dance world is peopled mostly by those who started young. Our minds cannot even consistently imagine a world peopled by men of different logical structures or a logical structure different from our own. His exterior scenes are peopled with many busy figures. Yet, the first centralizing tendencies appeared only after skirmishes between Native Americans and settlers led colonial officials to consider peopling the region as a buffer to avoid further conflict. To most lawyers and clerics, the world was still peopled with good and evil spirits, but it was now deemed extremely difficult to distinguish their activities from natural causes. The houses were well spaced apart with trees, green grass, and a rainbow of flowers growing between them, and the streets were peopled with merchants and craftsmen going home for the evening. One implication of individual choice is that the American frontier from the Colonial period onward was peopled through a process of self-selection. In novel after novel, she would recreate the rarefied Oxbridge milieu, a world peopled by erudite lost souls relentlessly seeking wisdom and love. The heirs to the Incas and the Mayas, and those of the myriad other Indian nations that peopled the continent in the pre-Columbus era, have a long tradition of resistance. The observances recognise that the island was peopled by different groups of Indians who had settled here over the 7000 years before the European encounter. Living at a German mission station on the periphery of a British colonial town peopled by Africans from different backgrounds, she became familiar with a range of cultures and languages. This is a world peopled by actors in a play within a play in which a cleric is ‘instructing some pious politician in hypocrisy’ and a judge is giving the wronged party a hard time. It was not true of the superstitious villagers who peopled the miniature municipality. On the negative side, there is Mitchell, who felt that a pestilent and famine ridden land was peopled by lurking savages. As a result, the most powerful nation in the world is peopled by a terrified citizenry jumping at shadows. But today, the world is peopled by intolerant religions that still decree that their God is the only true one. Remote and entirely dedicated to his craft, he lived in a world peopled by a few intimate friends, a world sealed to outsiders. Synonyms populate, settle, settle in, colonize, establish oneself in, inhabit, live in, occupy 1.1 Fill or be present in (a place, environment, or domain) 使（某地、环境或领域）充满 the street is peopled with ragamuffin hippies Example sentencesExamples What name do we have for such a horrible void that fills what was once peopled by the living? It is peopled by stockbrokers, businessmen and executives, who come and go throughout the day, giving their views on matters all and sundry. To that extent the custom by which Scottish and Irish historians have peopled their pages with ‘Normans’ is misleading. Ghosts and actors are not immaterial even though they may embody fictional scenarios; and conversely we might say that the world we live in, the world which is present to us, is peopled with phantoms. In ancient times their land was supposed to have been peopled by a race of giants. The world peopled by signs of hope suddenly appears to be emptied of meaning. He admires how she makes of the urban street a vast and peopled garden, and, in her roles as writer, mentor, and teacher, she emulates this throughout her life. But one must feel a certain pity for him, trapped in a farce of horrendous dialogue and flatlining humour, peopled by androgynous hippy beatniks who make one glad the sixties are dead. 1.2 Fill (an area or place) with a particular group of inhabitants. 使（某地区或地方）住满人 it was his intention to people the town with English colonists 他的意图是让英国殖民者在该城镇定居。 Example sentencesExamples Obsessed with the sky, he watched the stars and the moon, peopling them with imaginary inhabitants. Usage See person Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French poeple, from Latin populus ‘populace’.
随便看	rumble-de-thumps rumblegumption rumble-jumble rumblement rumble of thunder rumble on rumble on rumbler habitations habitative habitative habitativity habitator habitats habited habit-forming habition habit of habit of mind habits habitual (habitual) absentee habitually habitually habitually wear