townspeople
townspeople 英 ['taʊnzpiːp(ə)l] 美 ['taʊnz'pipl]
n. 市民;镇民;城里生长的人
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- n. 市民;镇民;城里生长的人
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1. A group of the townspeople stood on the station siding of a little Kansas town, awaiting the coming of the night train, which was already twenty minutes overdue.
堪萨斯州一座小城的车站里,一群市民站在月台上等候着夜班车的到来,那趟车已经晚点二十分钟了。
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2. The trials soon escalated into mass hysteria, with townspeople vehemently accusing neighbors and acquaintances, almost all of them unmarried women, of being witches.
审判很快升级为集体歇斯底里,市民激烈地指着邻居和熟人是巫婆,特别是没结婚的妇女。
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3. Once when Emily Dickenson's father noticed a briliant display of northern lights in the sky over Massachusetts, he tolled a church bell to alert townspeople.
有一次,当著名的诗人埃米丽迪金森的父亲偶然看见马萨诸塞州上空一道炫目的北极光时,他立刻跑到教堂鸣钟以告知所有的市民。
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