Popular
['pɒpjʊlə] or ['pɑpjəlɚ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people) .
(adj.) carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large; 'the popular vote'; 'popular representation'; 'institutions of popular government' .
(adj.) regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public; 'a popular tourist attraction'; 'a popular girl'; 'cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular' .
手打:列侬--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections.
(a.) Suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain.
(a.) Adapted to the means of the common people; possessed or obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as, popular prices; popular amusements.
(a.) Beloved or approved by the people; pleasing to people in general, or to many people; as, a popular preacher; a popular law; a popular administration.
(a.) Devoted to the common people; studious of the favor of the populace.
(a.) Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Plain, familiar, easy.[2]. Received (by the people), accepted, accredited, favorite, liked.[3]. Current, prevailing, prevalent, common, general, in vogue, in favor.
杰里手打
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Common, current, vulgar, public, general, received, favorite, beloved,prevailing, approved, widespread, liked
ANT:Exclusive, restricted, scientific, esoteric, unpopular, odious, detested
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解釋/意思:
adj. pertaining to the people: pleasing to or prevailing among the people: enjoying the favour of the people: easily understood: inferior: (Shak.) vulgar.—n. Popularisā′tion.—v.t. Pop′ularise to make popular or suitable to the people: to spread among the people.—ns. Pop′ulariser; Popular′ity Pop′ularness quality or state of being popular or pleasing to the people: favour with the people: a desire to obtain favour with the people.—adv. Pop′ularly.—v.t. Pop′ulāte to people: to furnish with inhabitants.—v.i. to increase in numbers.—adj. populous.—n. Populā′tion act of populating: the number of the inhabitants of any place.—adj. Pop′ulous full of people: numerously inhabited: (Shak.) numerous.—adv. Pop′ulously.—n. Pop′ulousness.
校對:谢尔比
例句/造句/用法:
- One sees very little about it in the newspapers and popular magazines, in spite of the fact that it is the keystone, so to speak, of the motion-picture industry. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- By the time the officer arrived, Sam had made himself so extremely popular, that the congregated gentlemen determined to see him to prison in a body. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The taking of pictures is, of course, one of the interesting phases of the business from a popular standpoint. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Besides Mr. Bounderby's gold spoon which was generally received in Coketown, another prevalent fiction was very popular there. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- There was great popular applause. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The popular poets got to work in this fashion: Thou king of satyrs . 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The popular fear of engrossing and forestalling may be compared to the popular terrors and suspicions of witchcraft. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Nor is he less in advance of popular opinion in his political and moral speculations. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no active enemies. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Another of the popular fictions of Coketown, which some pains had been taken to disseminate—and which some people really believed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- It was a pleasant business, and was very popular. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He's got the freak of being a popular man now, after dangling about like a stray tortoise. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- And in our own efforts to shape policies we do not seek out what is worth doing: we seek out what will pass for moral, practical, popular or constitutional. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The Reverend Bute Crawley was a tall, stately, jolly, shovel-hatted man, far more popular in his county than the Baronet his brother. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- They soon got beyond the first crude popular misconception of Darwinism, the idea that every man is for himself alone. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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