audience
英 ['ɔːdɪəns]
美['ɔdɪəns]
- n. 观众；听众；读者；接见
词态变化
复数: audiences;
中文词源
audience 听众
来自audible,听得见的，-ence,名词后缀。
英文词源
- audience (n.)
- late 14c., "the action of hearing," from Old French audience, from Latin audentia "a hearing, listening," from audientum (nominative audiens), present participle of audire "to hear," from PIE compound *au-dh- "to perceive physically, grasp," from root *au- "to perceive" (cognates: Greek aisthanesthai "to feel;" Sanskrit avih, Avestan avish "openly, evidently;" Old Church Slavonic javiti "to reveal"). Meaning "formal hearing or reception" is from late 14c.; that of "persons within hearing range, assembly of listeners" is from early 15c. (French audience retains only the older senses). Sense transferred 1855 to "readers of a book." Audience-participation (adj.) first recorded 1940.
双语例句
- 1. My audience certainly isn't the proverbial man in the street.
- 我的观众当然不是街上的平头百姓。
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- 2. The offending comment was in fact a heckle from an audience member.
- 这番冒犯性的话实际上是一名观众的诘难。
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- 3. They would always come out and warm up the audience.
- 他们总是会出来调动观众情绪。
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- 4. Say's writings reached a wide audience during his lifetime.
- 在塞伊有生之年，他的作品拥有大量的读者。
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- 5. After the show, the audience deserts the Blackpool streets.
- 演出结束后，观众从布莱克浦的大街上消失了踪迹。
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