| 单词 | spectator |
| 释义 | spectator (once / 282 pages) 1n 2n If you're watching something, you're a spectator. Football stadiums and circus tents are full of spectators. The spectator is a particular kind of viewer; unlike a witness or an onlooker, they usually have chosen intentionally to regard the spectacle before them. Usually the word spectator refers to people watching games or "spectator sports," but you could be a spectator at any planned event. An easy way to remember this word is to think of spectacles, glasses used to view something clearly — both from the same Latin root spectare. WORD FAMILYspectator: spectators+/spectate: spectated, spectating, spectator USAGE EXAMPLESIn 1884, Harvard tried to ban it for being “brutal, demoralizing to teams and spectators, and extremely dangerous.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Announcer Keith Jackson, whose voice was the quintessential Saturday soundtrack for generations, will be at the game as a spectator. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) The parade delights spectators along downtown city streets and at home in front of their televisions broadcasting the popular festivity live. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 n a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) 2the spectators applauded the performance Syn|Hypo|Hyper looker, viewer, watcher, witness browser a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular bystandera nonparticipant spectator cheerera spectator who shouts encouragement eyewitnessa spectator who can describe what happened gawkera spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness motion-picture fan, moviegoersomeone who goes to see movies oglera viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person looker-on, onlookersomeone who looks on playgoer, theatergoer, theatregoersomeone who attends the theater rubberneck, rubberneckera person who stares inquisitively spya secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people starera viewer who gazes fixedly (often with hostility) Peeping Tom, peeper, voyeura viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others first-nightersomeone habitually a spectator at the openings of theatrical productions groundlingin Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section snoop, snoopera spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others shadow, shadower, taila spy employed to follow someone and report their movements beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses n a woman's pump with medium heel; usually in contrasting colors for toe and heel Syn|Hyper spectator pump pump a low-cut shoe without fastenings |
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