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people noun—人 n (almost always used) ()人民 n (often used) ()Examples:lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter)—May 7 Cadre School (forcing educated people inre-education and peasant labor during Cultural Revolution)—incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people—tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator—gentleman aspiring benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals—carry a boat or to overturn a boat (idiom); fig. The people can support a regime or overturn it.—kill people like scything flax (idiom); human life as grass—the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature)—the people one depends upon for one's livelihood—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—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—Chinese people press-ganged and sold inslavery during Western colonialism—root out the strong and give people peace (idiom); to rob the rich and give to the poor—collecting together (of distinguished people or exquisite objects)—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—where it is possible let people off, one should spare them (idiom); anyone can make mistakes, forgive them when possible—night demon (malign spirit believed plague people during sleep)—forming groups of three or squads of five (idiom); people stand around in small clumps—honor old people as we do our own aged parents, and care for other's children as one's own—practice medicine or pharmacy help the people or public—lit. breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)—tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people—Kantō earthquake of 1923, magnitude 8.2, that killed 200,000 people in the Tokyo area—(of a group of people) live scattered over an area—If you're rich or famous, people will envy you.—lit. the fat and wealth of the people (idiom); the nation's hard-won wealth (esp. as an object of unscrupulous exploitation)—classifier for people working in the same domain—classifier for individual things or people, general, catch-all classifier—classifier for groups of people, herds of animals, flocks of birds, schools of fish— |