There was a time in history when it was put forward that grammatically, persons should be the preferred plural any time more than one person was referred to as a countable noun, and people should be preferred for uncountable nouns. That practice did not become standard, and nowadays, the plural persons is only considered correct in legal contexts and, occasionally, when deliberately referring to humans individually rather than collectively.
总结
The plural of person should be people in the vast majority of contexts, although legalese uses the plural persons.
在绝大多数情况下,person的复数形式应该是people,尽管法律术语中使用的是persons。
To the modern reader or speaker of American English, persons seem a little unnatural or strained. It's understandable that the Associated Press and The New York Times recommend using people over persons except in quotations and set phrases.