folk
n. 人們; 親人; 大夥兒; 民間音樂
adj. 民俗的; 大眾的; 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...
老鄉會告訴你有些地方動物是不會去的。
These are the folks from the local TV station.
這些是當地電視臺來的人。
You can refer to your close family, especially your mother and father, as your folks .
I've been avoiding my folks lately.
我近來一直在避開家人。
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...
“諸位,這是一個錢的問題,”我鄭重其事地說。
This is it, folks: the best record guide in the business.
就是這個,夥計們,業內最好的唱片指南。
Folk art and customs are traditional or typical of a particular community or nation.
...South American folk art.
南美洲的民間藝術
...traditional Chinese folk medicine.
傳統的中國民間醫術
Folk music is music which is traditional or typical of a particular community or nation.
...Irish folk music.
愛爾蘭民間音樂
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裡傑克是人們心目中的英雄。
Folk psychology comes closer to the obvious truth than the most sophisticated theories.
比起最複雜的理論,大眾心理學更接近那些顯而易見的事實。
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【非正式用語】
切實的,坦率的
I am not very fond of folk dance.
我不太喜歡民間舞蹈.
City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.
城裡人以為鄉下人思想迂腐.
She struck up a folk melody on the piano.
她開始用鋼琴演奏那首民歌.
For an encore, he sang an unaccompanied folk song.
應觀眾再唱一曲的要求, 他清唱了一首民歌.
She travelled the highways and byways of Scotland collecting folk songs and local traditions.
她走遍了蘇格蘭的大街小巷,收集民歌民俗.