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people noun—人 n (almost always used) ()人民 n (often used) ()Examples:paper dolls for ritual use in the shape of people or animals—hide dirt, to conceal corruption (idiom); to shelter evil people and accept wrongdoing—tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator—gentleman aspiring benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals—Sixteen Kingdoms of five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439)—long-lived people, rich harvests (idiom); stable and affluent society—carry a boat or to overturn a boat (idiom); fig. The people can support a regime or overturn it.—the Franks (Germanic people who arrived in Europe from 600 AD and took over France)—a government official drives the people revolt (idiom); a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people—gypsy (may refer Roma people, or to Bohemian lifestyle)—spilt water returns the trough (idiom); fig. people remember where they belong—the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); drive the nation to bankruptcy—lit. lead beasts to eat the people (idiom); fig. tyrannical government oppresses the people—social stratum below the level of ordinary people—stinking intellectual (contemptuous term for educated people during the Cultural Revolution)—internal contradiction among the people (pretext for a purge)—ravenous wolves block the road (idiom); wicked people in power—tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force—where it is possible let people off, one should spare them (idiom); anyone can make mistakes, forgive them when possible—the great Shaanxi earthquake of 2nd February 1556 that killed 830,000 people—abandon self for others (idiom, from Analects); to sacrifice one's own interest for other people—lit. like the new, and hate the old (idiom); fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old—a friend made in hospital or people who become friends in hospital—lit. breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)—lit. the fat and wealth of the people (idiom); the nation's hard-won wealth (esp. as an object of unscrupulous exploitation)—can be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike [idiom.]—classifier for people working in the same domain—classifier for individual things or people, general, catch-all classifier—treat people according to their rank and one's relationship with them [idiom.]—classifier for groups of people, herds of animals, flocks of birds, schools of fish— |