folk的意思|folk的解释-里氏词典

folk [fok]

n. 人们, 家人, 亲属, 民族

a. 民间的

I'd like you to meet my folks.
我想要你见见我的父母。
He is a very popular folk singer.
他是一位很受欢迎的民歌手。
They are just simple country folk.
他们只不过是普通的村民。

folk

[ noun ]

people in general (often used in the plural)

<noun.group>

they're just country folk

folks around here drink moonshine

the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next

a social division of (usually preliterate) people

<noun.group>

people descended from a common ancestor

<noun.group>

his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower

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

<noun.communication>

Folk \Folk\ (f[=o]k), Folks \Folks\ (f[=o]ks), n. collect. & pl.
[AS. folc; akin to D. volk, OS. & OHG. folk, G. volk, Icel.
f[=o]lk, Sw. & Dan. folk, Lith. pulkas crowd, and perh. to E.
follow.]
1. (Eng. Hist.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group
of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [Obs.]

The organization of each folk, as such, sprang
mainly from war. --J. R. Green.

2. People in general, or a separate class of people; --
generally used in the plural form, and often with a
qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks.
[Colloq.]

In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire
With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales.
--Shak.

3. The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all
well. [Colloq. New Eng.] --Bartlett.

{Folk song}, one of a class of songs long popular with the
common people.

{Folk speech}, the speech of the common people, as
distinguished from that of the educated class.

Rogers began his career in the 1960s performing as a back-up guitarist and later toured as a folk singer. "Through the early and mid '70s, I kept expanding the introductions to my songs," he said.
But, as usual, the news media are a faceless mass of shouting imbeciles blinding decent folk with flashbulbs and TV lights _ as they no doubt appeared to the McClures at the time.
Dylan Winter continues his Sunday teatime adventures with his barge and horse, sturdy Molly, meeting positively Dickensian canal-side folk.
But, the way some local folk see it, Peterborough may be turning into Their Town.
Would you willingly stake your livelihood on your performance in tests not only devised by folk largely ignorant about your job, but of dubious legality?
American folk art has also been very strong.
He sang Finnish folk songs for a while, then inexplicably jumped up and threatened to flatten the man seated in front of him.
Members of the group, dressed in embroidered folk shirts and blouses and lamb's wool vests, also gave Walesa an ax, which they said was a Polish symbol of freedom.
Studies are sometimes an easy way to impress the home folk and to delay or affect legislative action.
In 1974, Sotheby's auctioned the huge Garbisch collection of folk art to an enthusiastic reception.
Some North Carolinians voted for Helms as a folk hero, others voted against him as an embarrassment.
For 20 years, KUNM has featured "Freeform" broadcasting, an eclectic blend of music and cultural perspectives that one disk jockey describes as "anything from Mozart to Motown to high Andes folk music."
Acrobats, films, art exhibits, folk songs and spirited public readings on Monday celebrated the 100th birthday of Portugal's most acclaimed poet of the century, Fernando Pessoa.
Some music critics say Ives represents a link between Anglo-American folk traditions of the 19th century, whose songs he often sings, and the folk-rock styles of the 1960s.
Cajun music often features an accordian and fiddle and takes folk tunes from the Bayou country and gives them a bouncy, danceable beat.
Songs by one of the new talents, Blind Alfred Reed, were still being covered by folk singers in the '70s.
Popular groups such as DeDannan, the Tannahill Weavers and Kornog perform ancient songs in Gaelic, Erse and Breton side by side with original folk and rock-tinged compositions, and their taste in instrumentation is omnivorous.
It was in New York in 1959 at the beginning of the folk music boom that the Tom, Paddy, Liam and their friend Tommy Makem formed their group.
A popular folk singer deported back to his native Taiwan for criticizing Beijing's crackdown on dissent says Chinese officials gave him a choice: prison or the return to Taiwan.
John Magee, his Irish secretary, and at dinner sang sad folk songs with old friends from the nearby Polish College where he still keeps his guitar and skis in a closet.
Her shows, based on folk stories and myths, are performed largely for schoolchildren.
But the same students who perform Korean folk dances after class are likely to stop off for a bite later at McDonald's or Baskin-Robbins, says Mr. Seo: "No one can deny modernity."
While gathering fungi, he collected folk tales as well.
This helps explain the election of a substantial number of "greens," several representatives of local movements advocating "autonomy" for their regions, a couple of folk singers, a comedian and a known porno star.
Watson's rhetoric is purged of offensive racial references and cooled to a sympathetic refrain about the misery of dispossessed country folk forced to sell their youngsters' lifeblood to money-grubbing factory owners from the North.
Fusing traditional Yoruba folk tunes with Ghanaian highlife, the twenty voices, electric guitars and talking drums make intoxicating dance music.
And since our society requires that this sort of combat be handled only by professional gladiators, average folk have little choice.
At 49, he claims fans of all ages and appears at jazz, rock, folk and blues concerts.
Most of French composer Arthur Honegger's original score had been lost, but Brubacher found photocopies of 35 pages and improvised the rest with snatches of period French military and folk music.
So embarrassing. Harrods was noisier: lots of common folk, foreigners in the main, Brazilian cement kings and Australian princesses hocking the sheep farm.

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