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populace

/pop-yuh-luhs/US // ˈpɒp yə ləs //UK // (ˈpɒpjʊləs) //

民众,人民群众,民众的,居民

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the common people of a community, nation, etc., as distinguished from the higher classes.
    • : all the inhabitants of a place; population.

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Examples

  • Other events are cancelled amid breakthrough infections and a stubborn portion of the populace that refuses to take the shot.

  • As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

  • Amar notes that these men argued in a style that might be easily read by the people, but the populace at large, it appears, has dropped out of the conversation entirely.

  • Even for a populace very used to some unexpected downside emerging, it’s hard to see where one might emerge in this case.

  • Most people in most places were ruled by brute power or by old customs that the populace had never formally consented to in any self-conscious moment of collective choice.

  • He proposed among other things that police departments must better reflect the ethnic makeup of the populace.

  • In Revolution, Brand bemoans our “uninformed populace,” while repeatedly proving his point with fantastically wrong information.

  • He studied our use of language and the way that words are manipulated to manipulate the populace.

  • In order for the populace to lead balanced and productive lives, manipulative forces must provide scripted risk.

  • The Muslim populace who love and support you will never find palatable...the scenes of slaughtering the hostages.

  • He was accustomed, at his return, or issuing from his gates, to be hailed and lackied by the acclamations of the populace.

  • The populace was greatly excited, and a crowded house greeted his appearance.

  • He was the man made for the time—precisely the middle term between the reign of the nobility and the reign of the populace.

  • The Jacobins now made a direct and infamous attempt to turn the rage of the populace against Madame Roland.

  • Luckily, the time fixed for the revolution passed over, without the populace fulfilling its threats.