showman

英 [ˈʃəʊmən]

美 [ˈʃoʊmən]

n.  善于引起公众注意的人; 喜欢出风头的人; (尤指露天游乐场的)演出主持人，演出经理人

复数：showmen　

BNC.20888 / COCA.20928

牛津词典

noun

• 善于引起公众注意的人；喜欢出风头的人
  a person who does things in an entertaining way and is good at getting people's attention
• （尤指露天游乐场的）演出主持人，演出经理人
  a person who organizes public entertainments, especially at fairgrounds

柯林斯词典

• 主持风格夸张搞笑的人;擅长戏剧性表演的人
  Ashowmanis a person who is very entertaining and dramatic in the way that they perform, or the way that they present things.

英英释义

noun

• a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments
  Synonym:promoterimpresario
• a person skilled at making effective presentations

双语例句

• Walt Disney was a showman.
  华特迪士尼是位表演者。
• In local politics it helps to be a bit of a showman.
  在地方政治中，会赢得公众的注意有助于成功。
• Future coaches would suspect the glamour boy of being a showman but he always remained a workhorse.
  他后来的教练们可能会感到疑惑：这位魅力男孩怎么会成为一位善于作秀的人物。不过，他向来是一个能吃苦的人。
• P. T. Barnum, a famous circus showman, had a formula for success-Always have a little something for everybody.
  巴纳姆是一个著名的马戏团演员，有个成功公式：永远有一点对每个人都适用。
• There was no doubt, lurking somewhere in him, a touch of the spirit of the showman.
  毫无疑问，在他身上潜伏着那么一点滑稽演员的气质。
• On Language Features of Program Showman Speaking
  试论节目主持人说话的语体特征
• Browne: american humorist who used backwoods characters and local dialect to comment on current events in his fictional tales of an itinerant showman.
  布朗：美国幽默作家，在他讲述巡回演出人的小说故事中，用偏远落后地区的人物和方言来评论时事。
• Mr Schiller put on a gamely performance, but in subtle ways the absence of Mr Jobs, a consummate showman, was felt throughout.
  席勒在台上表现很大方，但是细枝末节，大家从一开始就能感受到了乔布斯&这位精湛的演说家的缺席。
• A newspaper ran an editorial attacking him for being a showman.
  一家报纸发表社论，批评他善于作秀。
• The audience sees the "showman" but hears the narrator's voice.
  观众看到的是表演者，而听到的是口述者的声音。