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the people noun—民 n (almost always used) ()人民 n (often used) ()Examples:lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter)—tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator—carry a boat or to overturn a boat (idiom); fig. The people can support a regime or overturn it.—lit. not harming a new feather (idiom); not commit the slightest offense against the people (of soldiers)—console the people and punish the tyrant—the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature)—the Great Hall of the People in Beijing—a government official drives the people revolt (idiom); a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people—We must learn accept the people around us.—the people one depends upon for one's livelihood—the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); drive the nation to bankruptcy—a clash between the police and the people—lit. lead beasts to eat the people (idiom); fig. tyrannical government oppresses the people—Serve the People!, CCP political slogan—win the hearts of the people—On the correct handling of internal contradictions among the people, Mao Zedong's tract of 1957—internal contradiction among the people (pretext for a purge)—the country prospers, the people at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity—the police and the people (usually in opposition)—lit. rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius); to save the people from dire straits—good people are at peace with themselves, (but) there is no rest for the wicked—tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force—practice medicine or pharmacy help the people or public—complaints of the people—family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned—honor the wise and love the people—Food is the God of the people. (idiom); People view food as the primary need.—lit. the fat and wealth of the people (idiom); the nation's hard-won wealth (esp. as an object of unscrupulous exploitation)—the country ruined and the people starving [idiom.]—the country weakened and the people empoverished [idiom.]—damage the people and harm the country [idiom.]—rob the state and hurt the people [idiom.]—for the convenience and benefit of the people [idiom.]—torment the people [idiom.]—have a real impact on the people [idiom.]—ethnic group in ancient China, a branch of the Eastern Hu people inhabiting the valley of the Xar Murun River in the upper reaches of the Liaohe River—root out the strong and give people peace (idiom); to rob the rich and give to the poor—lit. breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)—Kantō earthquake of 1923, magnitude 8.2, that killed 200,000 people in the Tokyo area—classifier for people working in the same domain— |