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people/ˈpi:p(ə)l/ n. & v.●n. 1 (usu. treated as pl. 通常看作复数)a persons composing a community, tribe, race, nation, etc. (组成社会、部落、种族、国家等的)人民；民族；种族 the English people 英国人民; a warlike people 尚武的民族; the peoples of the Commonwealth 联邦的各民族 b a group of persons of a usu. specified kind (常指特定的)人群 the chosen people 经过挑选的人; these people here 在这里的这些人; right-thinking people 思维正确的人 2 (prec. by 前接 the; treated as pl. 看作复数)a the mass of people in a country etc. not having special rank or position 平民，民众，老百姓 b these considered as an electorate 选民 the people will reject it 选民将反对它 3a Brit. parents or other relatives [英]父母；其他亲戚 my people disapprove 我家里人不同意 b US ancestors [美]祖宗 4a subjects, armed followers, a retinue, etc. 下属(武装随从，随员等) b a congregation of a parish priest etc. (教区牧师的)群体 5 persons in general (一般的)人，人们 people do not like rudeness 人们不喜欢粗鲁无礼 ●v. tr. (usu. foll. by 通常后跟 with) 1 fill with people, animals, etc.; populate 使充满人(动物等)，居住于 2 (esp. as 尤作 peopled adj.) inhabit; occupy; fill 居住于，占据，充满 thickly peopled 人口稠密的[Middle English via Anglo-French poeple, people, Old French pople, peuple, from Latin populus] |