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toastmaster

/tohst-mas-ter, -mah-ster/US // ˈtoʊstˌmæs tər, -ˌmɑ stər //UK // (ˈtəʊstˌmɑːstə) //

演说家,演讲家,演讲者,演讲员

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who presides at a dinner and introduces the after-dinner speakers.
    • : a person who proposes or announces toasts.

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Examples

  • Also, of all the jolly stories told by the toastmaster, and of the fun he had had at some other entertainments.

  • President Lauman was toastmaster, and opened the banquet with an address of welcome to Senator Harrison.

  • As toastmaster, deliver the first after-dinner remarks drawing attention to the occasion and introducing some one to speak.

  • He called on the president of a bank, who rose totteringly and undid the toastmaster's good offices by making too long a speech.

  • The toastmaster, a New York executive who had graduated from Webster twenty years before, understood the temper of his charge.