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folk

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Related topics: Music
folk1 /fəʊk $ foʊk/ ●●● S2 W3 noun  
1  [plural] (also folks) especially American EnglishAmE people 人们
 I’m sure there are some folk who would rather they weren’t here.
我敢肯定有些人宁愿自己不在这里。
 Thanks to the folks at NBC.
感谢全国广播公司的工作人员。
 Wait till the folks back home hear about this!
等到家乡的人听说这事吧！
young/old folk British EnglishBrE old-fashioned
 Young folk these days don’t know the meaning of work.
如今的年轻人不懂得工作的意义。
2  folks [plural]
a) especially American EnglishAmEFAMILY your parents and family 家人，家属
 Is it OK if I call my folks?
我打电话给家里人可以吗？
b) PERSON/PEOPLEused when talking to a group of people in a friendly way 各位，大伙儿
 That’s all for now, folks.
各位，到此为止。
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folks• Hi folks, it's good to see you all here tonight!
3  country/farming etc folk [plural] (also country etc folks American EnglishAmE) literaryALPERSON/PEOPLE people who live in a particular area or do a particular kind of work 乡下人/农民等
 simple country folk
纯朴的乡下人
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country/farming etc folk• The big occasion for country folk was the A&P Show.• Its country folk are very much at one with the land.• The customers were mostly farming folk, a hardworking and hard-drinking set of locals who, in general, were convivial and congenial.• The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk.• Sadly, country folk have caught on.• Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are unpretentious country folk.• Louisa's parents were country folk and believed very much in herbal remedies.
4  APM[uncountableU] folk music 民间音乐
 a folk singer
民歌手
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folk• But there's 100 folk after every job.• His parents were hard-working country folk.• Most folk around here are pretty friendly.• Stella's ambition is to get a job working with old folk.• We want to see beautiful people we can be envious of, not ordinary folk who remind us of ourselves.• The radio folk have some homework to do between now and Thursday.• As with folk, it's a natural process, simply reflective.• The young folk need to have a place where they can go in the evenings.• I joined other escaping mums - and dads and younger folk and older folk too.
young/old folk• I joined other escaping mums - and dads and younger folk and older folk too.• We have an alarming number of distressing cases in our files of youngsters, families and old folk who need us.• You had to talk to those dear old folk at the Empress and I don't blame you.• From the Dwarves, the Deep Ones of the Greshorns, the oldest folk of the earth.• I used to go along to Greenbank Hospital's geriatric wards, where I sang and played to the old folk.• The young folk were emigrating enmasse.• Normally, once these older folk have attended a course they are keen to participate in others.
Related topics: Folklore, Literature, Music
folk2 adjectiveadj [only before noun]  
1  RFfolk art, stories, customs etc are traditional and typical of the ordinary people who live in a particular area 民间的，民俗的
 folk tales
民间故事
 an Irish folk song
一首爱尔兰民歌
2. folk science/psychology/wisdom etc RFscience etc that is based on the ideas or beliefs that ordinary people have, and does not involve a high level of technical knowledge 民间科学/心理学/智慧等
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folk science/psychology/wisdom etc• Some of the new findings, though, support previously unsubstantiated folk wisdom about alcohol and caffeine.• Maxims, proverbs, and other forms of folk wisdom give a person reasons for obeying rules.• Like most folk wisdom it is true, I think.• The folk wisdom led Tory politicians to dismiss opinion poll findings suggesting the opposite.• It was a part of folk wisdom that providing houseroom for a widowed parent could lead to intense family friction.• Like much political folk wisdom, this particular belief is of recent origin.• Voters' trade-off between taxes and services has changed since 1979 - and anyway the folk wisdom was always misleading.
3. folk medicine/remedy MAa traditional type of medical treatment that uses plants or simple treatments rather than scientific methods 民间传统医学/疗法
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folk medicine/remedy• GUHgl-MUHgl n. A folk remedy for sore throats and colds.• And as in folk medicine generally, if you believe it will help, it probably will.
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folk• He was discovered again during the folk boom that came just after his death in 1961.• It has a charming folk cast to it.• The second model is what the researchers call the gay folk construction of risk.• Spanish folk songs• Many of her first attempts were little more than workmanlike folk songs.• An ancient folk tale, it became the source of a number of legends and literary adaptations.• Like most folk wisdom it is true, I think.
Origin folk
Old English folc
folk1 nounfolk2 adjectiveadj
Chinese
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See also: folk music

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