masses

people, masses, crowd, throng, mob

这些名词均有“人们、人群”之意。
people: 最普通用词，不带任何色彩，泛指不确定数量的人们。
masses: 指群众或平民，在西方国家含贬义，在我国含褒义。
crowd: 本义指一大群紧紧聚集在一起的人，现指群众整体，由个体结合的人群或大众。
throng: 与crowd含义很接近，常可换用，但侧重指向前运动的群众。
mob: 含贬义，指乌合之众、暴民。

名词 masses:

1. the common people generally
   同义词：multitude, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed

名词 mass:

1. the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
   同义词：mass
2. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
   同义词：batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
3. an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
   同义词：mass
4. (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
   同义词：Mass
5. a body of matter without definite shape
   同义词：mass
6. the common people generally
   同义词：multitude, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed
7. the property of something that is great in magnitude
   同义词：bulk, mass, volume
8. a musical setting for a Mass
   同义词：Mass
9. a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite
   同义词：Mass

名词 masse:

1. a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball
   同义词：masse, masse shot

动词 mass:

1. join together into a mass or collect or form a mass
   同义词：mass

1. There were masses of dark clouds in the sky.
   天上有朵朵乌云。
2. It is during these seasons that the differences in temperature between warm and cold masses of air are greatest.
   就在这些季节里，热气团与冷气团的温差最大。
3. The hunger, cold and misery then pervading Russia had reached the point of exasperating the masses and making them ripe for revolution.
   当时饥饿、寒冷、苦难笼罩着俄国，这些使得民众激愤，革命的时机成熟了。
4. She enjoyed high prestige among the masses.
   她在群众中享有很高威信。
5. Government by the masses; mob rule.
   由民众统治; 暴民政治
6. Of or associated with the great masses of people; common.
   平民的，普通的大众人民的，与大众人民有关的; 普通的