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spectators

/spek-tey-ter, spek-tey-/US // ˈspɛk teɪ tər, spɛkˈteɪ- //UK // (spɛkˈteɪtə) //

旁观者,观赏者,观众,观察者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
    • : a person who is present at and views a spectacle, display, or the like; member of an audience.
    • : Also called spectator shoe . a white shoe with a perforated wing tip and back trim, traditionally of dark brown, dark blue, or black but sometimes of a lighter color.

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Examples

  • He said over the next several years it drew more and more race participants and spectators.

  • They’re skillfully adapting some of the devices honed in live performance over the years — namely, techniques to break the fourth wall and lure spectators into the show.

  • Even so, being a spectator of this process is extremely exciting.

  • Employees at Capital One can mix with clients and senior leaders at cultural and spectator sporting events, in fitness classes, and at lunches.

  • The findings indicate that acorn woodpeckers are willing to invest an impressive amount of time and energy in these power struggles, whether they are warriors or spectators.

  • Boos came from some of the families and friends in the spectator seats.

  • These days, authoritative feminist discourse is no longer just a spectator sport.

  • He breaks down the divide between himself, as performer, and the fan, as spectator.

  • Then one daring, possibly planted, spectator interrupted the show to profess her crush.

  • “Bill Clinton provided a lot of laughter to me and to The American Spectator,” he said.

  • Nor was Mr. Bumbles gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of a spectator.

  • Old Warrender would lean on his daisy-spud a pleased spectator of the Arcadian scene.

  • From that day he must consider himself cut off from human beings, active life; he no longer lives—he is the spectator of life.

  • His face was, moreover, mottled with dusky spots, so that he reminded the spectator of a frog or a toad.

  • Happily in the pages of the ‘Tatler’ and ‘Spectator’ there is stored up for us the best and rarest of that quiet wisdom.