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n. 人们, 父母, 亲人, 家属

  1. Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
    一想到什么就马上脱口而出的人们,倘使经过思量之后再讲的话,就可能没那么差劲了。
  2. I'd like you to meet my folks.
    我想要你见见我的父母。
  3. We live with the country folks.
    我们和村民住在一起。


folks
[ noun ]
  1. your parents

  2. <noun.group>
    he wrote to his folks every day
  3. people in general (often used in the plural)

  4. <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


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.

  1. The folks at Graceland say Elvis remains buried at his Memphis tourist attraction.
  2. "I think you would like to be sure that all of the folks that are doing any work on any flight hardware are in full command of themselves, so it does concern me," McCartney said.
  3. When the kid next door runs away from home, he's liable to get in trouble with his folks.
  4. "Over the next year," says Mayor Lee Cooke, "I believe you will see a flood of concerns and anger by folks like me." Moreover, some economists argue, the bailout is a transfer of cash to the wealthy from the less-so.
  5. That folks here take their football seriously has never been in doubt; someone dispatched the dog of Dan Devine, the second of St. Vince's five successors, after a disappointing loss.
  6. "We have information that some folks are trying to help the kids escape out of state," he said.
  7. If not, they will have a great time greeting folks." The post office is capitalizing on Earth Day by issuing a commemorative postmark.
  8. The House loves to call itself "The People's House" and its members like to act like folks.
  9. At age 83, Friz Freleng, the man who helped create a stable of Warner Bros. cartoon characters, could have long ago said, "That's all folks!" and retired.
  10. The fan says Beard deserves a hug and a "there, there" pat when he's telling folks bad news.
  11. The Bush folks have already responded.
  12. "In terms of crop conditions and pasture conditions, I would say overall they do look better that I expected," Yeutter said. "That doesn't mean folks are out of the woods.
  13. The work beginning Thursday covers more than 100 metropolitan areas across the nation, as counters try to track down folks who either didn't get a census form or failed to mail theirs back.
  14. "I suggest that those folks could save a lot of money and get a great dose of Third World reality simply by walking through the barrio in Los Angeles," West Virginia Commerce Commissioner John Brown said Wednesday.
  15. Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos said they were simple folks, but they lived in an ornate citadel of self-glorification from which they ruled the Philippines with a curious mixture of dictatorship and flexibility, reform and stagnation.
  16. "Those terms, while they are slang, are like calling folks in the United States `Yanks'," he said.
  17. After closing its cartoon studio in 1962, Warner burned several hundred thousand to make space for its publicity department. Disney old-timers tell of parties at which folks slid around the floor on them once a cartoon was in the can.
  18. "I think that I am talking about something very different than John Jacob and his folks are talking about," said Bolick.
  19. Maybe that's because King, author of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," has a jaundiced affection for the folks he has put on stage.
  20. The seventh sign has to do with Demi's baby; when it's born, dead and souless, that's all, folks.
  21. "Despite more than 365 years of continuous residence in America, black folks are largely strangers to the majority of Americans," says the Rev. Craig J. Lewis, head of multicultural ministries for the Evanglical Lutheran Church in America.
  22. But they also had some consulting help from the folks who knew the restaurant _ and Sanders _ best: his family.
  23. The hulking, bald Foreman whom the folks saw fight Qawi is a different fella from the hard-muscled young champ whose place in history rests largely on two fights, one that he won and one he lost.
  24. Some folks don't have garages, he noted.
  25. When Leahy asked him whether he planned to end the criticism, Yeutter responded: "Provided that it is responded (to) in kind by folks who place themselves in the category of environmental advocacy.
  26. And the reptiles might not be the only ones that get hurt, Mr. Yokel says: Allowing hunting after a 26-year break means "a lot of folks who are inexperienced at manhandling gators" will be on the prowl.
  27. Lots of folks head for the top of the Empire State Building when they visit New York.
  28. Yes, the folks at D.C. Comics Inc. magazines have discovered a theme already milked by the Hollywood producers of "Wall Street" and "Working Girl" _ corporate takeovers and foxy financiers make good entertainment.
  29. He was quoted as saying, "You folks in America worry too much about the Jews.
  30. "These folks want to run the presidency from Capitol Hill, and they want to have the Supreme Court enact the laws that Capitol Hill does not dare," Bork said.
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