名 the people，a member of a nationality，a person of a certain occupation，civilians；形 folk，civilian，civil ；

[例句] 它会出钱雇农民开垦这块低矮丛林来种植麦子。 It would pay farmers to plough up the scrub and plant wheat.

[例句] 一群愤怒的暴民聚集在法院外。 An angry mob gathered outside the courthouse.

migrate，immigrate，emigrate，immigrant，[电影]The Immigrant；

[例句] 投资移民目前必须拥有800, 000加币的净资产. Investor immigrants are required to have net assets of $ 800, 000.

[例句] 移民签证申请者必须支付额外的75美元. Applicants for immigrant visas must pay an additional $ 75 charge.

national，countrymen；

[例句] “娱乐消遣是每个国民都能享受的事，”她坚定地说。 "Enter-taining is something that everyone in the country can enjoy," she averred.

[例句] 该项目的主要投资商是法国的国民信贷银行。 The main investor in the project is the French bank Credit National.

the people，demos，dumb millions ；

[例句] 列宁永远活在亿万人民的心中。 Lenin lives on in the minds and hearts of millions of people.

[例句] 他的受审重新勾起了在战争中受苦受难的法国人民的回忆。 His trial revived memories of French suffering during the war.

nation，nationality，volk；

[例句] 他本能的反应会是寻求与民族主义者取得新的和解。 His instinct would be to seek a new accommodation with the nationalists.

[例句] 他们和不同民族的人们一起和睦地生活和工作。 They've been living and working peacefully with members of various ethnic groups.

citizen，civil，burgher，civics，freeman ；

[例句] 这次抽奖只限英国公民参加。 Entry to this prize draw is limited to UK residents.

[例句] 公民抗命，不管是暴力还是非暴力的，都是故意犯法。 Civil disobedience, violent or non-violent, is intentional law breaking.

peasant，peasantry，husbandman，farmer，boor ；

[例句] 许多农民然后就会凶巴巴地把你从他们的土地上撵走。 Many farmers will then chase you off their land quite aggressively.

[例句] 他们向农民出价每蒲式耳2.15美元收购玉米。 They are offering farmers $2.15 a bushel for corn.

democracy，democratic rights，democratic ；

the populace，the common people，civilian，commonalty，commoner ；

[例句] 随着7名平民被杀害，该地区局势紧张起来。 There is tension in the region following the killing of seven civilians.

[例句] 当局声称在两次不相关的袭击中已有6名平民丧生。 The authorities say six civilians have been killed in two separate attacks.

militiaman，people's militia，Minuteman，askari，commando ；

[例句] 民兵首领已拦阻了该地区经由陆上运送食品的车队。 Militia leaders had halted overland food convoys in the region.

[例句] 黎巴嫩的民兵组织已经同意从贝鲁特撤出。 The militia in Lebanon has agreed to pull out of Beirut.

resident，inhabitant，denizen，dweller，inmate ；

[例句] 原来的居民可能会认不出这个崭新的城镇了。 The new town would have been unrecognisable to the original inhabitants.

[例句] 他们使用武力把土著居民驱逐出了比较肥沃的土地。 They used force to banish the natives from the more fertile land.

establish a colony，colonize，plantation，settlement ；

[例句] 我们经受过400多年的殖民统治。 For more than 400 years, we were a colonized people.

[例句] 她一生经历丰富，曾在殖民服务局担任高级职位。 Her eventful life included holding senior positions in the Colonial Service.

folk custom，folkways，folk-custom ；

[例句] 这个村子有自己传统的服饰 、 烹调 、 民俗和手工艺. This village has its own traditional dress, cuisine, folklore and handicrafts.

[例句] 她走遍了苏格兰的大街小巷,收集民歌民俗. She travelled the highways and byways of Scotland collecting folk songs and local traditions.

voter，elector，constituency，electorate ；

[例句] 20%到40%的选民还犹豫不决。 20 to 40 per cent of the voters are undecided.

[例句] 国会议员这个周末要向所在选区的选民征求意见。 Members of Parliament are spending the weekend canvassing opinion in their constituencies.

residents of a city，townspeople，burgher，cit，citizen ；

[例句] 我请每位市民都仔细研读该文件。 I invite every citizen to carefully study the document.

[例句] 东贝鲁特的市民们躲进了地下室和掩体中。 Citizens of East Beirut went to ground in basements and shelters.

a national of a particular country residing abroad，those living abroad and retaining their own nationality，foreign residents，colony，emigrant ；

[例句] 外国侨民被要求离开该国. Foreign nationals were asked to leave the country.

[例句] 通过了一项法律保护外国侨民的财产. A law was passed to protect alien property.

poor people，pauper ；

[例句] 他变成了那种贫民区里常见的醉鬼。 He became a skid row type of drunkard.

[例句] 19世纪为贫民建造的连排式房屋 back-to-backs built for the poor in the 19th century

refugee，displaced person ；

[例句] 大多数难民等待救济的地方都不能挡风遮雨。 The area where most refugees are waiting is exposed to the elements.

[例句] 寻求避难者中有不到7%的人被视作政治难民。 Fewer than 7% of asylum seekers are accepted as political refugees.

folk song，ballad ；

[例句] 她开始用钢琴演奏那首民歌. She struck up a folk melody on the piano.

[例句] 应观众再唱一曲的要求, 他清唱了一首民歌. For an encore, he sang an unaccompanied folk song.

folk rhyme，folk music，folk songs，ballad，Volkslied ；

[例句] 埃尔维斯认为自己是民谣歌手。 Elvis conceived of himself as a ballad singer.

[例句] 她教他读书,还教他唱两三首民谣, 弹着她的旧钢琴为他伴奏. She taught him to read and even to sing two or three little ballads, accompanying him on her old piano.