【people音标】 英[ˈpi:pl] 美[ˈpi:pl]
【单词释义】 people是什么意思：
n.人，人类；人们；居民；人民；种族
vt.居住于；布满；使住满人，在…殖民；把动物放养在
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] peoples [第三人称单数] peoples
[单词现在分词] peopling
[单词过去式] peopled
[单词过去分词] peopled
【people形近词/近似词】
couple n.对，双；情侣，配偶，夫妻
maple n.枫树
purple adj.紫色的 v.使成紫色
【单词例句】
◇ From then on, people will live in peace in the forest, no tigers to harass them anymore.
从此，大伙就平平安安地住在了森林里，再也没有老虎来骚扰他们了。
---- The Big Tiger and Little Rabbit
◇ Long ago, there were four blind people. They wanted to know what elephants looked like. Because of the blindness, they could only touch the elephant.
从前，有四个盲人很想知道大象是什么样子，可他们看不见，只好用手摸。
---- Touching an Elephant
◇ Now, there once was an old man whom all the people called Kribble-Krabble, for that was his name. He always wanted the best of everything, and when he could not manage it otherwise, he did it by magic.
从前有一个老头儿，大家把他叫做克里布勒·克拉布勒，这就是他的名字。他总是希望在一切东西中抽出最好的东西来。当他没有办法达到目的时，他就要使用魔术了。
---- The Drop of Water
◇ But she answered, "I cannot remain here. I will go away. Compassionate people will give me as much as I need."
可是姑娘回答说：“我不能住在这里，我情愿出去，有同情心的人们会给我所需要的东西的。”
---- The Girl without Hands (I)
◇ However, one day she accidentally overheard some people talking about her. They said that she was beautiful enough, but that in truth she was to blame for her seven brothers' misfortune.
终于有一天，她偶然听到人们谈起有关她的事情，他们说：“她的的确确很漂亮，但可惜的是她的七个哥哥却因为她的缘故而遭到不幸。”
---- The Seven Ravens
◇ That frightened the miller, and he made his paw white for him. Yes, that is the way people are.
磨坊主害怕了，只好洒了点面粉，把狼的爪子弄成了白色。人就是这个德行！
---- The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
◇ Soon there was a large demand for kerosene. People began to search for new supplies of petroleum.
---- Oil Refining
◇ I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am a Wife. And, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother.
我已为人妻，又作了人母，应该称作妇人了。
---- I Want a Wife
◇ My father continued to walk alongside her as he always had. Two people who had stood together against all odds. My mother orphaned at a young age and moved place to place. My father the youngest of nine in a family hurt with poverty.
父亲一如既往地走在母亲的身旁，如同二人昔日承受所有的患难。母亲幼年时就成了孤儿，四处漂流；父亲兄弟姊妹九个，也曾饱受贫困之苦。
---- To Love Enough
◇ "People who forgive show less depression, anger and stress and more hopefulness," says Frederic Luskin, Ph.D., author of Forgive for Good (HarperCollins, 2002). "So it can help save on the wear and tear on our organs, reduce the wearing out of the immune system and allow people to feel more vital."
《原谅的好处》(哈珀科林斯出版社, 2002)一文的作者弗雷德里克 卢斯金博士曾说过：“原谅他人的人很少消沉，不容易发怒，压力减少并充满希望。原谅有助于减少生理消耗，增强免疫能力，让人充满活力。”