- 1民眾、百姓（較書面）
The populace is the people of a country or city, thought of as a whole crowd rather than as names and faces. It is a formal, slightly word. News and history writing use it; friends almost never say it over lunch. Population counts heads with numbers; populace paints the mass of ordinary residents. If you mean “how many people live here,” population is the safer school word. Though actually, the word came into English with a rough edge: the Italian piece it grew from was a bit , closer to “the ” than to a polite “the public.” In careful English today it is usually cooler than that, but it can still sound as if you are looking at people from above.
From the word’s history
From Middle French populace, from Italian popolaccio, popolo + pejorative -accio, from Latin populus.
源自義大利文 popolaccio，即 popolo「人民」加貶義字尾。
組成From Middle French populace, from Italian popolaccio: popolo (“people”) plus a suffix that made it sound low or rough, from Latin populus.
同家族的字
- popularboth from Latin populus, the people
- populationsame Latin root populus
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
populacenoun/ˈpɒpjʊləs/
- 1
The common people of a nation.
- The populace despised their ignorant leader.
- Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
- 2
The inhabitants of a country or one of its administrative divisions (such as a state, province, or county).
- Thomas Brassey (1805-70) should be equally famous, yet he is unknown to swathes of the greater populace. His plaque is at Chester.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。