| 单词 | popular |
| 释义 | popular (pɒpjʊləʳ ) 1. adjective A2 Something that is popular is enjoyed or liked by a lot of people. This is the most popular ball game ever devised. Chocolate sauce is always popular with youngsters. Synonyms: well-liked, liked, favoured, celebrated popularity (pɒpjʊlærɪti ) uncountable noun [oft with poss] B2 ...the growing popularity of coconut oil. [+ of] Walking and golf increased in popularity during the 1980s. Synonyms: favour, fame, esteem, acclaim Synonyms: currency, acceptance, circulation, vogue 2. adjective A2 Someone who is popular is liked by most people, or by most people in a particular group. He remained the most popular politician in France. He was not only talented but immensely popular with his colleagues. popularity uncountable noun [oft with poss] B2 It is his popularity with ordinary people that sets him apart. [+ with] Synonyms: favour, fame, esteem, acclaim Synonyms: currency, acceptance, circulation, vogue 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2 Popular newspapers, television programmes, or forms of art are aimed at ordinary people and not at experts or intellectuals. Once again the popular press in Britain has been rife with stories about their marriage. ...one of the classics of modern popular music. ...the popular culture of his native Mexico. 4. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Popular ideas, feelings, or attitudes are approved of or held by most people. Contrary to popular belief, the oil companies can't control the price of crude. The military government has been unable to win popular support. Popular anger has been expressed in demonstrations. popularity uncountable noun Over time, though, Watson's views gained in popularity. Synonyms: favour, fame, esteem, acclaim Synonyms: currency, acceptance, circulation, vogue 5. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Popular is used to describe political activities which involve the ordinary people of a country, and not just members of political parties. The late President Ferdinand Marcos was overthrown by a popular uprising in 1986. Synonyms: mass, general, civil, democratic Collocations: popular image Despite their winsome appearance, the mammals are carnivores and some of their activities are not as cuddly as their popular image suggests. Times, Sunday Times Such was the popular image of holiness: solitude, silence, and severity. Christianity Today Contrary to the popular image of doorstep collectors being big and burly, debt recovery agents work principally by telephone and by post. Times, Sunday Times The poll also found that 'selfies' - snaps taken of oneself at arm's length - are now the most popular image captured by young people. The Sun If nothing else, it gives the lie to the popular image of video gaming as a pursuit for loners and losers. Times, Sunday Times The police state he created has been inadequate to the power of popular protest. Times, Sunday Times Every initiative has been a botched, short-term gesture to placate his or her party or to buy off popular protest. Times, Sunday Times The charges follow heavy-handed police measures trying to halt seven days of popular protest about rising electricity prices. Times, Sunday Times But popular protest can work. Times, Sunday Times The print became a focus of popular protest and turned its maker into an artistic celebrity whose campaign helped to reduce the penalty fromdeath to imprisonment. Times, Sunday Times All beaches at the popular resort were closed immediately. The Sun Unlike the historic old town on the rock, the part beneath had all the features of a popular resort. The Times Literary Supplement You can expect 20-25 weeks of occupancy a year, at rates of about 60 a night for a one-bedder or 200 for a three-bedroom villa in a popular resort. Times, Sunday Times He engaged a band, spent a comparatively large sum on advertising, and made the market a popular resort. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was enraptured over the falls and their surroundings, and believed from the first that the locality would eventually become a popular resort. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet it depended on a mass popular revolt to succeed, which could not have been planned in advance. Times, Sunday Times Little short of his immediate resignation would have appeased the popular revolt. Times, Sunday Times Judged variously as immoral, invulnerable or perilously brittle, the party has somehow emerged all-powerful after 91 years of famine, war, popular revolt, epic leadership folly and scandal. Times, Sunday Times Suppressing this leads to popular revolt. Times, Sunday Times The popular revolt over our fish gathers force. Times, Sunday Times To be fair, one must never mistake the effusions of the media for a prevailing popular sentiment. Times, Sunday Times The effect of this popular sentiment has been profoundly corrosive. Times, Sunday Times Nor were there any sacrifices to popular sentiment in the selection of songs. Times, Sunday Times This popular sentiment couldn't be more wrongheaded. Times, Sunday Times If, for whatever reason - party advantage, say, or popular sentiment - those people choose not to uphold them, then the rules disappear like smoke. Times, Sunday Times It's a bittersweet finale, but the popular series has thankfully been recommissioned for a second season. The Sun It's great for me, at my age, to be in a very popular series. Times, Sunday Times Surely this hugely popular series isn't that contrived? Times, Sunday Times This massive 40-disc box set features all 236 episodes from the ten hugely popular series. The Sun The popular series returns — and it makes for genuinely riveting television. Times, Sunday Times But can we make it three years in a row as the most popular show? The Sun Filming has just finished on the ninth series of the popular show about former officers brought out of retirement to investigate longunsolved crimes. The Sun The popular show opens with the ambush of a police convoy. The Sun It was, however, a polished and popular show, featuring glamorous overseas locations and regularly attracted audiences of around 12 million. Times, Sunday Times The role became one of the highlights of a career which spanned six decades, but being associated with such a popular show had its drawbacks. Times, Sunday Times These characters have a lot more weight than the hero of a popular sitcom that lasts maybe four years. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The show received positive reviews throughout most of its run, becoming one of the most popular sitcoms of the mid-to-late-1980s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although it got off to a slow start, by the mid-1990s, the show had become one of the most popular sitcoms in television history. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Friends received positive reviews throughout its run, becoming one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 From popular sitcoms to news, from current affairs to television drama-series and made-for-television films, he has directed almost all the genres of television program that exist today. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An estimated 6,200 crimes in 2010 made reference to the popular site, meaning it crops up in crime reports almost once an hour. The Sun Restaurants inevitably feel they have to use the most popular site. Times, Sunday Times The park was a popular site for festivals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This popular site houses some of the equipment used for preparation, processing and manufacturing of woolen products. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By 1997 it was the fifth most popular site on the internet, and the company went public in 1998. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After a week like this, we really do need to remind ourselves why football remains by far the most popular sport in the country. Times,Sunday Times It may be the most popular sport in the world but football's administrators could not be more inept. Times, Sunday Times We turn to sport to see humans in conflict and the richer and more popular sport becomes, the more its participants lose their humanity. Times, Sunday Times For four weeks, we forgot all about the overpaid, over-inflated egos of the country's most popular sport, football. The Sun Our most popular sport, seen every week by hundreds of millions, shouldn't allow the world to believe that we are. Times, Sunday Times The attractive two-bedroom terrace, in a popular spot near the town centre, also has a private garden. The Sun The tiny opera house, which seats just short of 60 people, became a popular spot, and there were successful concerts, including some of operatic excerpts. Times, Sunday Times However, when the hard-partying house becomes the most popular spot on campus, the college's dean begins a campaign to close it down. The Sun It has become a popular spot for barbecues. Times, Sunday Times It's also a popular spot for arts events and projects. Times, Sunday Times They worked for two years tweaking a popular style. Houston Chronicle He was shown the door just short of his 60th birthday feeling bitter but believing that he had no place in the newspaper's new, more popular style. Times, Sunday Times Sushi, in particular, has taken hold as a popular style for eating out and as an entre for events. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A popular style of phaeton was the dual cowl phaeton, with a cowl separating the rear passengers from the driver and front passenger. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many lock manufacturers made this very popular style of lock. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Popular support can no longer be taken for granted. The Times Literary Supplement Those at the top, for all their rhetoric, have made clear that they need technocrats like him, and popular support. Times, Sunday Times That they knew that they lacked popular support underlines their moral courage. Times, Sunday Times The appeal has also won huge popular support. The Sun They would not command sufficient popular support otherwise. Times, Sunday Times Sometimes, those purveyors of popular taste who believed, with all their razzamataz and publicity, that they knew precisely what the public wanted, made mistakes. Times, Sunday Times It has taken a revolution in popular taste to finally achieve what the pioneers set out to do. Times, Sunday Times They either reflect popular taste or challenge it. Times, Sunday Times And they show how popular taste can be more advanced and sensitive than the critical consensus sometimes allows. Times,Sunday Times But the fact that the imprint has managed to stay in tune with popular taste for nearly 30 years surely deserves much credit. Times, Sunday Times This lesson examines the popular topic of housing allowance. Christianity Today It's the most popular topic around the dinner table. The Sun Relationships are clearly going to be another popular topic. Times, Sunday Times Another popular topic: effective interviewing techniques. Globe and Mail They also supply popular topic forums for southern gospel fans to meet and discuss the genre. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In so doing it created the conditions for a popular uprising that ended in the ousting of the corrupt president. Times, Sunday Times Unrest and probably popular uprising will follow if they do not. Times, Sunday Times It opened up new fault lines and briefly raised the spectre of a popular uprising. The Times Literary Supplement Prior to his election, a popular uprising against foreign gas producers led to an 80 per cent increase in gas royalties. Times, Sunday Times The country was in chaos after a student-led popular uprising against the military. Times, Sunday Times His work was far from universally popular, however. Times, Sunday Times Such developments are rarely universally popular, but by all accounts this one appears to have been largely accepted. Times,Sunday Times Yes, but both these isolated forays were universally popular with his party. Times, Sunday Times Language changes and new usages are never going to be universally popular. Times, Sunday Times And he has not been universally popular at any club that he has worked at. The Sun Yet the idea of providing free pre-kindergarten education remains widely popular. Times, Sunday Times Yet in a trade, then as now, noted for sharp elbows, he managed to remain widely popular. Times, Sunday Times But not all of the changes are as widely popular. Times, Sunday Times It hardly promises to be widely popular. Times, Sunday Times She became both feared and respected as well as widely popular for her forthright style. Times, Sunday Times Comet believes that the photography of self-delusion will become wildly popular. Times, Sunday Times They are wildly popular, provoking several reissues and a host of lookie-likie tributes from other brands. Times, Sunday Times He was wildly popular and so drew other heroes to him. Times, Sunday Times Wildly popular, it mirrored its leader's extrovert demeanour with concerts often overrunning, and ending with parades through the audience. Times, Sunday Times It may be wildly popular, but it has never turned a profit. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 广受欢迎的 Japanese: 人気のある |
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