词组 | popular |
释义 | folk • people • popular - All the people here have done their best to make this a happy occasion. (preferably not the folk) (people is the usual word to describe men, women and children together; folk is patronizing after the, these, those) - The people of Britain will be voting on May 14th. (Not *folk*) (= the mass of the population) - Most folk/people round here have cars. (folk used like an indefinite they) - There's a Christmas party every year for the old folk/people. (folk can combine with particular words: the old folk, country folk, village folk, etc.) - You can always hear a lot of popular music/songs on radio request programmes. (popular means 'liked/enjoyed by a lot of people'; not *of the people*) - Some composers like Bartok made use of folk songs/music. (= traditional, coming from ordinary country people) |
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