Folk
[fəʊk] or [fok]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) people in general (often used in the plural); 'they're just country folk'; 'folks around here drink moonshine'; 'the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next'.
整理:伊冯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n. collect. & pl.) Alt. of Folks
沙琳編輯
解釋/意思:
n. people collectively or distributively: a nation or race (rarely in pl.): (arch.) the people commons: (pl.) those of one's own family relations (coll.):—generally used in pl. Folk or Folks (fōks).—ns. Folke′thing the lower house of the Danish parliament or Rigsdag; Folk′land among the Anglo-Saxons public land as distinguished from boc-land (bookland)—i.e. land granted to private persons by a written charter; Folk′lore a department of the study of antiquities or arch鎜logy embracing everything relating to ancient observances and customs to the notions beliefs traditions superstitions and prejudices of the common people—the science which treats of the survivals of archaic beliefs and customs in modern ages (the name Folklore was first suggested by W. J. Thoms—'Ambrose Merton'—in the Athen鎢m August 22 1846); Folk′lorist one who studies folklore; Folk′mote an assembly of the people among the Anglo-Saxons; Folk′-right the common law or right of the people; Folk′-song any song or ballad originating among the people and traditionally handed down by them: a song written in imitation of such; Folk′-speech the dialect of the common people of a country in which ancient idioms are embedded; Folk′-tale a popular story handed down by oral tradition from a more or less remote antiquity.
杰夫編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- I reckon 'at us manufacturing lads i' th' north is a deal more intelligent, and knaws a deal more nor th' farming folk i' th' south. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But they visit wi' a' th' first folk in Milton. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Poor folk mun get on as they can. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Of course not; no, it is that the heath-folk have come to sing to us a welcome. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I walked past it, and wondered what sort of folk they were who had come to live so near us. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- How would you manage about the women folk? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Run down, my dear fellow, and open the door, for all virtuous folk have been long in bed. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- They talk to poor folk fair as if they thought they were beneath them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I wish these fine folk would stay at home till they're asked; and I want to finish trimming my hat (bonnet she meant). 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- By folk the good ladies of course mean themselves, for indeed they are kept in a continual fry by this system of mutual invasion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It's a' very well for happy folk'---- Margaret touched his arm very softly. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- And other folk--d'ye think 'twill be much pain to 'em, Mister Fairway? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- If the pre-Aryans figure in it at all, it is as the fairy folk of the Irish stories. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I'm not a fool; and if I was, folk ought to ha' taught me how to be wise after their fashion. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- It's as if speeches folk ha' made--clever and smart things as I've thought at the time--come up now my heart's welly brossen. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Go thar; they're kind folks. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- So long as your grand folks wants to buy men and women, I'm as good as they is, said Haley; 'tan't any meaner sellin' on 'em, that 't is buyin'! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- They 's 'spectable folks enough in a kinder plain way; but, as to gettin' up anything in style, they don't begin to have a notion on 't. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Folks hate him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I was not obliged to bring their unhallowed scrawls, and run the risk of being bewitched, as more folks than one told me. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- How easy white folks al'us does things! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- No more than I expected, if you are allowed to go poking about among poor folks. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Did they sit up for the folks at the Pineries, when Ralph Plantagenet, and Gwendoline, and Guinever Mango had the same juvenile complaint? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Folks did that about Brassing, by what I can understand. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Then you have not seen Christian or any of the Egdon folks? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I suppose our folks will wonder, at first; but I think they will be brought to see as I do. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Don't want none o' your light-colored balls, said Dinah; cuttin' round, makin' b'lieve you's white folks. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- We must show some folks that we're as good as they. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Folks never call upon ladies at this time of day. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- But though it be true to a proverb that lazy folks take the most pains, does it follow that they deserve the most money? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
校對:普拉特