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  • Hi, I'm Dan from BBC Learning English and today I'm going to talk to you about person and persons, people and peoples.

    嗨,我是 BBC 英語教學的 Dan今天我要來談談 person 和 persons、people 和 peoples

  • A person is a human man, woman, or child.

    一位 person 是一個男人、女人或小孩

  • It is a singular countable noun.

    它是單數的可數名詞

  • There was one person at the door.

    門口有一個人

  • The plural of person is people.

    person 的複數形是 people

  • It refers to a group or a number of human beings.

    它指的是一群或一些人

  • It is a plural countable noun.

    是複數的可數名詞

  • There were three people at the door.

    門口有三個人

  • So how about persons?

    那 persons 呢?

  • Persons is a plural countable noun.

    persons 是複數的可數名詞

  • It's similar to people, but it's considered more polite and more formal.

    它跟 people 相似,但更禮貌也更正式

  • It's most often seen written down.

    在書寫的形式中比較常見

  • This lift can hold a maximum of 15 persons.

    這臺電梯最多可承載 15 個人

  • And peoples?

    那 peoples 呢?

  • Peoples is the countable plural form of people and comes from the other meaning of people.

    peoples 是 people 的可數複數形式,並延伸自 people 的其他意思

  • People can mean nation.

    people 可以是民族的意思

  • The Aztecs were a people that lived in the Americas.

    阿茲特克人是一群曾住在美洲的民族

  • Or, there are many peoples living on the Earth.

    或者有許多不同民族的人們住在地球上

  • They are all human - so far.

    他們都是人類,目前為止都是啦

Hi, I'm Dan from BBC Learning English and today I'm going to talk to you about person and persons, people and peoples.

嗨,我是 BBC 英語教學的 Dan今天我要來談談 person 和 persons、people 和 peoples

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