folk

英 [fəʊk] 美[fok]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词society people public

n. 民族；人们；亲属（复数）
adj. 民间的
n. (Folk)人名；(英、匈、捷)福克

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中文词源

folk 民间，大众

来自PIE*pele,装满，词源同full, plebeian.用来指民间大众。

词态变化

复数: folks;

英文词源

folk: folk: [OE] Folk comes from a prehistoric Germanic *folkam, which also produced German and Dutch volk and Swedish and Danish folk. It is not clear where this came from, although it has been linked with the Indo- European base *pel-, *plē- ‘fill’, which might also have produced Latin populus ‘people’. On the other hand Russian polk’, thought to have been borrowed from the Germanic form, means ‘division of an army’, and it is conceivable that this may preserve an earlier semantic stratum, represented also in Old Norse folk, which signified both ‘people’ and ‘army’.
folk (n.): Old English folc "common people, laity; men; people, nation, tribe; multitude; troop, army," from Proto-Germanic *folkam (cognates: Old Saxon folc, Old Frisian folk, Middle Dutch volc, Dutch volk, Old High German folc, German Volk "people"). Perhaps originally "host of warriors:" Compare Old Norse folk "people," also "army, detachment;" and Lithuanian pulkas "crowd," Old Church Slavonic pluku "division of an army," both believed to have been borrowed from Proto-Germanic. Old English folcstede could mean both "dwelling-place" and "battlefield." According to Watkins, from PIE *ple-go-, suffixed form of root *pele- (1) "to fill," which would make it cognate with Greek plethos "people, multitude." Superseded in most senses by people. Generally a collective noun in Middle English, however plural folks is attested from 15c.

Old English folc was commonly used in forming compounds (59 are listed in the Clark Hall dictionary), such as folccwide "popular saying," folcgemot "town or district meeting;" folcwoh "deception of the public." Modern use of folk as an adjective is from c. 1850 (see folklore).

双语例句

1. The word "volk" translates literally as "folk": volk这个单词直译过来为folk（人们）。

2. The folk-song world was another of his abiding interests.: 民歌是他的另一个始终不渝的爱好。

3. Jack was a folk hero in the Greenwich Village bars.: 在格林尼治村的酒吧里杰克是人们心目中的英雄。

4. A military band played Russian marches and folk tunes.: 一支军乐队演奏了俄罗斯的进行曲与民乐。

5. I don't know what those folk think they are playing at.: 真不知道那些家伙在搞什么鬼。

英英释意

1. people in general;: "they're just country folk"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"

2. a social division of (usually preliterate) people

3. people descended from a common ancestor;: "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

4. the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

考试真题

So come on, folks: get on board with ditching the outdated tip system.

This once-in-alifetime event actually may take place twice in some folks’ lives.

Extravagance (奢侈) is out Business folk are bending over backwards to avoid seeming extravagant.

Proverbs, sometimes called sayings, are examples of folk wisdom.

And Warren Buffett, the good-natured financier, became a homespun folk hero, without the tools and overalls (工作服).

Proverbs, sometimes called sayings, are examples of folk wisdom.

Another group of folks is needed to help market the event.

Six days a week, up and down the red hills of northeast georgia, my grandfather brought the mail to the folks there.

To learn more about Chinese culture, Jack has decided to take Chinese folk music as an elective course.

Mean while , many settles had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.

Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.

Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration—one of the great folk wanderings of history—swept from Europe to America.

Meanwhile, many settlers had slighter religious commitments than Dane's, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.

实用场景例句

Garlic is widely used in Chinese folk medicine.: 大蒜广泛应用于中国民间医药。

folk wisdom: 民间智慧

a folk museum: 民俗博物馆

a folk festival/concert: 民间音乐节 / 会

folk art: 民间艺术

farming folk: 农民

country folk: 乡下人

townsfolk: 城里人

ordinary working-class folk: 普通劳动大众

I'd like a job working with old folk or kids.: 我喜欢与老人或小孩打交道的工作。

the folks back home (= from the place where you come from): 家乡的乡亲父老

Well, folks, what are we going to do today?: 喂，伙计们，我们今天要干什么？

How are your folks?: 你爸妈好吗？

...Irish folk music.: 爱尔兰民间音乐

Jack was a folk hero in the Greenwich Village bars...: 在格林尼治村的酒吧里杰克是人们心目中的英雄。

Folk psychology comes closer to the obvious truth than the most sophisticated theories.: 比起最复杂的理论，大众心理学更接近那些显而易见的事实。

...traditional Chinese folk medicine.: 传统的中国民间医术

...South American folk art.: 南美洲的民间艺术

Country folk can tell you that there are certain places which animals avoid...: 老乡会告诉你有些地方动物是不会去的。

These are the folks from the local TV station.: 这些是当地电视台来的人。

I've been avoiding my folks lately.: 我近来一直在避开家人。

'It's a question of money, folks,' I announced...: “诸位，这是一个钱的问题，”我郑重其事地说。

This is it, folks: the best record guide in the business.: 就是这个，伙计们，业内最好的唱片指南。

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