请问这两个介词的意思与用法

题目

请问这两个介词的意思与用法
“It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen,by people who waited three hours and four hours,many for the first time in their lives,because they believed that this time must be different,that their voices could be that difference.”
此句中by people的by,我知道不是被动.
many for first time的for,请问for在这里的意思和用法,前面那个应该是代词指代人对吧.
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by...好像是被动那个..

答案

by people 和 by lines 是并列跟在 told后面,也就是完整的 It's the answer told by people,理解成“这就是被人们说出来的答案”,是被动句.many 完整的应该是many of those people,意思是前面 “by people” 的 peop...