Collective nouns describe many individuals who form a group.

集合名词描述的是组成一个群体的诸多个体。

In some cases, " faculty" is a collective noun, not a mass noun.

在某些情况下，“faculty”是一个集合名词，而不是一个物质名词。

It's also the general collective noun for birds as well, not just chickens.

它也是描述鸟的一个集合名词，不仅仅用于鸡。

And, although " people" is defined as many humans, it is not a collective noun.

而且，尽管people被定义为许多人，但它不是一个集合名词。

Today we're going to look at collective nouns.

今天我们要看的是集体名词。

Now, keep in mind sometimes you have collective nouns as subjects.

现在，请记住，有时您将集体名词作为主语。

In American English, collective nouns are usually singular and usually take a singular verb.

在美式英语中，集体名词通常是单数形式，通常带单数动词。

The collective noun is a murder of crows, in fact.

其集体名词应该是“一群”乌鸦 西方的量词形容方式比较特别， 会用一些能产生联想的词汇表示， 比如这里a murder of crows指一群乌鸦，murder本意为谋杀， 故接下来会有杰弗里说谋杀的冷笑话。

So when we have a collective noun, we have a different apostrophe rule.

所以当我们有一个集体名词时，我们有不同的撇号规则。

Toiletries. Toiletries are well it's the collective noun that we use for anything that comes from the bathroom so makeup, shampoo, toothbrush.

盥洗用品。盥洗用品是我们对浴室所有东西的统称，如化妆品、洗发水、牙刷。