spectator

noun
🔊/spekˈteɪtə(r)/
🔊/ˈspekteɪtər/
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  1. a person who is watching an event, especially a sports event(尤指体育比赛的)观看者,观众
    • The new football stadium will hold 75 000 spectators.新足球场将能容纳75 000名观众。
    • Thousands of spectators lined the route of the royal procession.数千名观众围成皇家游行的路线。
    Extra Examples
    • He was rendered a virtual spectator for large parts of the game.这场比赛的大部份时间他都在替补席。
    • Spectators lined the route of the president's walkabout.围观群众在总统要经过的路上列队等候。
    • The stadium will seat 60 000 spectators.该体育场将能容纳 6 万名观众。
    • This year's festival attracted 87 000 spectators.今年的节日活动吸引了 87,000 名观众。
    • I think soccer is the best spectator sport there is.我认为足球是最具观赏性的体育项目。
    Topics Sports: other sportsb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • mere
    • passive
    • silent
    … of spectators
    • crowd
    verb + spectator
    • attract
    • draw
    • seat
    spectator + verb
    • gather
    • turn up
    • line something
    spectator + noun
    • event
    • sport
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    Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French spectateur or Latin spectator, from spectare ‘gaze at, observe’, frequentative of specere ‘to look’.