folk
n. 人们; 亲人; 大伙儿; 民间音乐
adj. 民俗的; 大众的; 普通百姓的
You can refer to people as folk or folks .
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。
You can refer to your close family, especially your mother and father, as your folks .
I've been avoiding my folks lately.
我近来一直在避开家人。
You can use folks as a term of address when you are talking to several people.
'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。
Folk art and customs are traditional or typical of a particular community or nation.
...South American folk art.
南美洲的民间艺术
...traditional Chinese folk medicine.
传统的中国民间医术
Folk music is music which is traditional or typical of a particular community or nation.
...Irish folk music.
爱尔兰民间音乐
Folk can be used to describe something that relates to the beliefs and opinions of ordinary people.
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。
1. people in general;
2. a social division of (usually preliterate) people
3. people descended from a common ancestor;
4. the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
just folks【非正式用语】
切实的,坦率的
I am not very fond of folk dance.
我不太喜欢民间舞蹈.
City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.
城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐.
She struck up a folk melody on the piano.
她开始用钢琴演奏那首民歌.
For an encore, he sang an unaccompanied folk song.
应观众再唱一曲的要求, 他清唱了一首民歌.
She travelled the highways and byways of Scotland collecting folk songs and local traditions.
她走遍了苏格兰的大街小巷,收集民歌民俗.