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  • Conjugation : past  peopled ; ing  peopling ; pl  people ; pl  peoples
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

people ['piːpl]
  1. 1. n pl (individuals) 人
    There were 120 people at the lecture.
    120人去听了讲座
  2. 2. n pl (generalizing) 人们
    There has been a complete change in people's ideas on the subject.
    人们完全改变了对这个问题看法
  3. 3. n pl the people (ordinary people) 人民
    a rift between the people and their leadership
    人民和领导层的不和
  4. 4. n pl 国民
  5. 5. noun [c] (nation,race) 民族
    the native peoples of Central America
    中美洲土著民族
  6. 6. vt. (populate) 居住于
    old people
    老人
    young people
    年轻人
    many people
    许多
    people say that...
    有人说…
    a man of the people
    人民打成一片的人

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

people [ˈpiːpl]
  1. 1. noun [Periodical Publication] 人物》,全球定位精确、最有效的人物访谈类杂志之一
  2. 2. noun [Plural] 人,人们
    In mid-August five thousand people were killed in Calcutta.
    八月中旬有5千人在加尔各答被杀。
    There were at least 200 people in the audience.
    至少有两百名观众
  3. 3. n.[c] [Plural] 公民国民
    The people are ready for a change in the government.
    国民已经准备好了政府换届
  4. 4. noun [Plural] 家族族人亲属
    Are your people still alive?
    你的人还活着吗?
    His people have been farmers for generations.
    他的族人几代都是农民
  5. 5. noun [Plural] 平民,大众老百姓
    The people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners -- they might be killed by the populace.
    老百姓非常爱戴国王释放罪犯将是不安全的他们可能会被平民杀死
  6. 6. n.[c] 民族
    The rain forest is also home to 20 million people including 180,000 indigenous people.
    热带雨林是2亿人的家,其中有18万的原著民族
  7. 7. vt. 使……充满人;使人到……居住;在……殖民
    The place was peopled with ghosts and soon he would be one of them.
    这个地方充满鬼魂不久他也将成为他们其中一员
    Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes.
    斯大林曾经打算空旷的西伯利亚大草原上移民
  8. 8. vt. 居住于移民
    The clear implication is a future world peopled by fewer brokers.
    清楚含义是指未来世界将会有更少的中间人居住
    The fact is the universe is very sparsely peopled.
    事实世界没有足够的地方人类居住了。
  9. 9. vt. 使充斥充满

Collins English-English Dictionary

people ['piːpəl]
  1. 1. n [usually functioning as plural] persons collectively or in general
  2. 2. n a group of persons considered together
    blind people
  3. 3. n the persons living in a country and sharing the same nationality
    the French people
  4. 4. n one's family
    he took her home to meet his people
  5. 5. n persons loyal to someone powerful
    the king's people accompanied him in exile
  6. 6. vt. [tr] to provide with or as if with people or inhabitants
  7. 7. vt. [Etymology] C13: from Old French pople, from Latin populus; see populace

Examples

Representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people,by the people,for the people.
林肯所定义的代议制政府是民有、民治、民享的政府。
The intellectual people are more suitable for administration position than sentimental people.
理智的人比感情用事的人更适合做管理工作。
Beautiful young people are the whimsey of nature, but beautiful old people are true works of art.
美丽的年轻人是大自然的奇想,而美丽的老人却是艺术的杰作。
Beautiful young people are the whimsey of nature, but beautiful old people are true works of art.
美丽的年轻人是大自然的奇想,而美丽的老人却是艺术的杰作。
The people who go online today consist primarily of people who are trying to better their opportunities.
时下,上网的人们主要包括哪些试图改善自身机遇的人们。
Intolerant people will always case aspersions on people who are different from them.
偏执之人会经常诽谤与他们迥然不同的人。
A great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
一群伟大的人,黑人,为文明的脉络注入了新的意义和尊严。

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