Folk

(noun.) people in general (often used in the plural); 'they're just country folk'; 'folks around here drink moonshine'; 'the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next'.

整理:伊冯

• I reckon 'at us manufacturing lads i' th' north is a deal more intelligent, and knaws a deal more nor th' farming folk i' th' south. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But they visit wi' a' th' first folk in Milton. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Poor folk mun get on as they can. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Of course not; no, it is that the heath-folk have come to sing to us a welcome. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I walked past it, and wondered what sort of folk they were who had come to live so near us. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• How would you manage about the women folk? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Run down, my dear fellow, and open the door, for all virtuous folk have been long in bed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• They talk to poor folk fair as if they thought they were beneath them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I wish these fine folk would stay at home till they're asked; and I want to finish trimming my hat (bonnet she meant). 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• By folk the good ladies of course mean themselves, for indeed they are kept in a continual fry by this system of mutual invasion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It's a' very well for happy folk'---- Margaret touched his arm very softly. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• And other folk--d'ye think 'twill be much pain to 'em, Mister Fairway? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• If the pre-Aryans figure in it at all, it is as the fairy folk of the Irish stories. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I'm not a fool; and if I was, folk ought to ha' taught me how to be wise after their fashion. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It's as if speeches folk ha' made--clever and smart things as I've thought at the time--come up now my heart's welly brossen. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Go thar; they're kind folks. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• So long as your grand folks wants to buy men and women, I'm as good as they is, said Haley; 'tan't any meaner sellin' on 'em, that 't is buyin'! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• They 's 'spectable folks enough in a kinder plain way; but, as to gettin' up anything in style, they don't begin to have a notion on 't. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Folks hate him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I was not obliged to bring their unhallowed scrawls, and run the risk of being bewitched, as more folks than one told me. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• How easy white folks al'us does things! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• No more than I expected, if you are allowed to go poking about among poor folks. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Did they sit up for the folks at the Pineries, when Ralph Plantagenet, and Gwendoline, and Guinever Mango had the same juvenile complaint? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Folks did that about Brassing, by what I can understand. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Then you have not seen Christian or any of the Egdon folks? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I suppose our folks will wonder, at first; but I think they will be brought to see as I do. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Don't want none o' your light-colored balls, said Dinah; cuttin' round, makin' b'lieve you's white folks. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• We must show some folks that we're as good as they. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Folks never call upon ladies at this time of day. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But though it be true to a proverb that lazy folks take the most pains, does it follow that they deserve the most money? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

校对:普拉特