1. 当people表示“人,人民，客人，雇员，家人”“人们”时，只用单数形式，但总是表示复数意义。如：
People have different moral values. 人有不同的价值观。
People learn from experience. 人们从经验中学习。
People tend to work hard at this stage of life.
人在这个人生阶段往往发奋努力。
Parents are the most important people in a child's world.
父母在儿童的天地里是最重要的人。
Few people can count on having a job for life.
几乎没有人能指望一辈子都干一个工作。
Millions of people have lost their homes.
数百万人流离失所。
Nowadays a lot of people work from home.
如今有很多人在家工作。
Some people don't know when they're well off.
有些人身在福中不知福。
She took no interest in the people and things around her.
她对周围的人和事毫无兴趣。
She looks down on people who haven't been to college.
她瞧不起没上过大学的人。
More and more people are using the Internet.
越来越多人在使用互联网。
Contact with other people is a basic human need.
和他人接触是人的基本需要。
We don't usually give presents to people at work.
我们一般不给在职职工送礼。
She was not used to mixing with people of high social rank.
她不习惯和社会地位很高的人搅和在一起。
Many young people are out of work.
很多年轻人失业。
I'm having people to dinner this evening.
今晚我在家里宴请客人。
Young people are very hot on pop music. 年轻人热衷于流行音乐。
Old people are usually more conservative than young people. 老年人通常比年轻人保守。
She tends to annoy people.
她的举止往往惹人烦。
It was felt that the government was no longer in touch with the people.
人们觉得政府已脱离了民众。
The king urged his people to prepare for war.
国王呼吁臣民百姓准备作战。
I've had my people watching the house for a few days.
我让用人照看了几天房子。
She's spending the holidays with her people.
她正与家人一起度假。
表示“一个人”时，不能用one people，可根据情况改用one person, one man, one woman, one boy等。
He is so not the right person for you.
他这个人绝对不适合你。
2. people表示“民族”时是可数名词，其前可用不定冠词，也可复数形式。
We Chinese are a hardworking people. 我们中国人是勤劳的人民。
Ireland was inhabited by two peoples. 爱尔兰居住着两个民族。
He pledged that he would always put the interest of the American people first.
他保证始终把美国人民的利益放在第一位。
This tradition comes from a people of northwestern Spain.
这个传统来源于西班牙西北部的一个民族。
The policy was widely supported by the peoples of Europe.
该政策得到了欧洲各民族的广泛支持。
比较：
How many peoples live in Asia? 亚洲有多少个民族?
How many people live in the room? 这房间住了多少人?
有时它还可与few, many等连用。如：
Few peoples in the world can boast (of) such an old civilization as ours. 世界上没有几个民族有像我们民族这样悠久的文化。
3. a man of the people(尤指政治家) 体恤民情者；体察民意者
Despite his fabulous wealth, he is very much a man of the people.
他虽然腰缠万贯，却非常亲民。
The billionaire CEO has tried to remain a man of the people, spending his time working alongside his employees.
这位亿万富翁CEO一直都努力保持亲民，和员工们一起工作。
Our new Prime Minister is a man of the people.
我们的新首相是个体恤民情者。
当然：a woman of the people 女体恤民情者；女体察民意者
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