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| 释义 | 〔people〕Used as a pluralpeople is a form with no exactly corresponding singular. (English is not odd in this respect:the equivalent word is anomalous in Spanish, Italian, Russian, and many other languages.)In the past, grammarians have sometimes insisted thatpeople is a collective noun that should not be used as a substitute forpersons when referring to a specific number of individuals, as inSix people were arrested. Butpeople has always been used in such contexts, and the distinction is now so widely ignored in general writingthat it seems pedantic to insist on it.Persons is still preferred in quasilegal contexts, however, as inVehicles containing fewer than three persons may not use the left lane during rush hours. Only the singularperson is used in compounds involving a specific numeral: People 用做复数时无确切的单数形式。 （在此方面英语是不固定的：在西班牙语、意大利语和许多其它语言中相应的词是不规则的。）过去，语法学家曾坚持说people 是集合名词， 不能替代描述特定数量个体的persons ， 如在六个人被捕了 中。 但是people 常用在这样的上下文中， 其区别在一般的书面语中被大大忽略了，再坚持其区别则显得多余。Persons 仍多被用在法律性的语境中， 例如在交通高峰期容纳少于三个人的汽车不允许使用左单行道。 只有单数person 用在与具体数目有关的复合词中： 〔vagrant〕Moving in a random fashion; not fixed in place:游移不定的：以任意的方式运动；不固定的：〔free〕Not fixed in position; capable of relatively unrestricted motion:没固定的：位置不固定的；能相对地无约束地运动的：〔hyperon〕A semistable or unstable baryon with mass greater than the neutron. See table at subatomic particle 超子：一个不固定的重子，其质量比中子大 参见 subatomic particle〔floater〕An employee who is reassigned from job to job or shift to shift within an operation.临时工：在某一项工作中被指派做不固定的工作或临时当班的雇员〔unsure〕Precarious; unstable; unreliable.不稳定的，不固定的；不可信任的；不可靠的〔unsettled〕Not fixed or established:变动的：不固定的或确立的：〔floating〕Inclined to move or be moved about:流动的，不固定的：倾向于移动或动来动去的：〔loose〕Not taut, fixed, or rigid:不固定的，不坚硬的：未绷紧的，未固定的，不稳固的： |
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