people是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 人们， 人； [the -，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping.
-- Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense.
-- He said no more, but slowly waving a benediction, covered his face with his hands, and so remained kneeling, till all the people had departed, and he was left alone in the place.
-- Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is which was the only way he could get there thrown among people as strange to him as though he were in the planet Jupiter; and yet he seemed entirely at his ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship; always equal to himself.
-- For at bottom so he told me he was actuated by a profound desire to learn among the Christians, the arts whereby to make his people still happier than they were; and more than that, still better than they were.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The children were neat and clean to behold, when they went; and what more would the people have!
-- 'I hope you say your prayers every night,' said another gentleman in a gruff voice; 'and pray for the people who feed you, and take care of you--like a Christian.'
-- It would have been very like a Christian, and a marvellously good Christian too, if Oliver had prayed for the people who fed and took care of him.
-- And this was it: The members of this board were very sage, deep, philosophical men; and when they came to turn their attention to the workhouse, they found out at once, what ordinary folks would never have discovered--the poor people liked it!It was a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes; a tavern where there was nothing to pay; a public breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper all the year round; a brick and mortar elysium, where it was all play and no work.
-- So, they established the rule, that all poor people should have the alternative (for they would compel nobody, not they), of being starved by a gradual process in the house, or by a quick one out of it.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bingley had soon made himself acquainted with all the principal people in the room; he was lively and unre-served, danced every dance, was angry that the ball closed so early, and talked of giving one himself at Netherfield.
-- 'Oh!you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general.
-- They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first pri-vate seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.
-- Bingley had never met with more pleasant people or prettier girls in his life; every-body had been most kind and attentive to him; there had been no formality, no stiffness; he had soon felt acquainted with all the room; and, as to Miss Bennet, he could not con-ceive an angel more beautiful.
-- Darcy, on the contrary, had seen a collection of people in whom there was little beauty and no fashion, for none of whom he had felt the smallest interest, and from none received either attention or plea-sure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He changed his posture to a sitting one, crying with a triumphant air:'Here I am!See me!Shaken out of destiny's dice-box into the company of a mere smuggler; shut up with a poor little contraband trader, whose papers are wrong, and whom the police lay hold of besides, for placing his boat (as a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position, even by this light and in this place.
-- When these people howl, they howl to be heard.'
-- 'Most people do, I suppose.'
-- 'Ah!but these people are always howling.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As young readers like to know 'how people look', we will take this moment to give them a little sketch of the four sisters, who sat knitting away in the twilight, while the December snow fell quietly without, and the fire crackled cheerfully within.
-- For-tunately it was early, and they went through back streets, so few people saw them, and no one laughed at the queer party.
-- And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hun-gry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
-- 'You mean the people who live in the big house next door, don't you?'
-- I don't care what people say!'
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