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词汇 speaker
释义 speaker
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈspiː.kər/ us /ˈspiː.kɚ/

speakernoun[C] (FORMAL TALK)


B1
a person who gives a speech at a public event: 发言者;演讲者
public speaker He is a clever man, and an entertaining and engaging public speaker.
guest speakerPlease join with me in thanking our guest speaker tonight.请大家和我一起向今晚的特邀演讲人表示感谢。
keynote speakerThe Democrats have chosen the Texas state treasurer as the keynote (= most important) speaker at their convention.民主党人选择了得克萨斯州财政部长作为他们大会上的主要发言人。
In his opening salvo the speaker fiercely attacked the government's record on healthcare.演讲者在开场白中猛烈抨击政府在卫生保健领域的所作所为。
She is a confident and self-possessed public speaker.她是一个自信而沉着的演说家。
The speaker sidestepped the question by saying that it would take him too long to answer it.演讲者借口说回答要很长时间而回避了这个问题。
The speaker was applauded as he tore apart the prime minister's policies.发言者严厉批评了首相的政策,得到了一片掌声。
A huge throng had gathered round the speaker.
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Speakers & talkers
caller
commentator
conversationalist
debater
demagogic
demagogically
demagoguery
demagogy
flack
informant
motormouth
orator
public speaker
quidnunc
raconteur
speechifier
speechmaker
spokesman
spokeswoman
superflack

speakernoun[C] (LANGUAGE)


B1
someone who speaks a particular language: (说某一特定语言的)说话者;演讲人
a French speaker说法语的人
fluent speakerA fluent Spanish speaker, she has translated several of his books.
non-English speakers不是说英语的人
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Using other languages
Anglocentric
Anglocentrism
bilingual education
bilingualism
bilinguality
interpret
machine translation
misrender
mistranslate
mistranslation
mother tongue
multilingually
natively
rendering
target language
translator
transliterate
trilingual
Waystage
word for wordidiom

speakernoun[C] (ELECTRICAL)


A2
the part of a radio, television, or computer, or of a piece of electrical equipment for playing recorded sound, through which the sound is played. A speaker can be part of the radio, etc. or be separate from it: 扬声器,喇叭
There's no sound coming out of the right-hand speaker.右边的喇叭不出声了。
 
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Amplifiers, microphones & speakers
amplification
amplifier
balance
bass
bullhorn
earphone
electrophone
headphone
headphones
headset
hot mic
loudhailer
megaphone
microphone
mike
mike check
pa
soundbar
soundbase
tap
 on speaker
using the function of a phone, computer, etc. that allows other people to hear the person you are talking to :
He called his attorney and put the phone on speaker.
You're on speaker, so be careful what you say.
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Communications - by telephone
0800 number
3G
4G
5G
access code
aeroplane mode
airplane mode
area code
buzz
caller ID
Freephone
ISDN
nomophobia
patch someone through
phone in
phone mast
pick
speakerphone
telephone
unlisted
Speaker
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈspiː.kər/ us /ˈspiː.kɚ/
the person who controls the way in which business is done in an organization which makes laws: (议会等立法机构的)议长
He served for eight years as Speaker of the House of Representatives.他做了8年的众议院议长。
[ as form of address ]Mr Speaker, my honourable friend has failed to consider the consequences of his proposal.议长阁下,我尊敬的朋友没有考虑到他的提案的后果。
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UK politics: legislation & law-making
abolish
abrogate
abrogation
amendment
assemblyman
constitutionally
enact
First Minister's Questions
FMQs
gold plate
Green Paper
guillotine
parliamentarian
penal reform
PMQs
pocket veto
presiding officer
promulgate
White Paper
writ

speaker | American Dictionary


speaker
noun[ C ]

speakernoun[C] (ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT)


us/ˈspi·kər/
a piece of electrical equipment through which recorded or broadcast sound can be heard:
We bought new speakers for our stereo system.

speakernoun[C] (PERSON WHO KNOWS A LANGUAGE)


us/ˈspi·kər/
someone who speaks a particular language:
a French/Chinese speaker

speakernoun[C] (PERSON WHO GIVES FORMAL TALK)


us/ˈspi·kər/
a person who gives a speech at a public event:
There will be three speakers at the graduation ceremony.
She’s not a good public speaker.
us/ˈspi·kər/
A speaker is also the person who controls the way in which business is done in an organization which makes laws, such as the US House of Representatives:
the Speaker of the House

speakernoun[C] (PERSON SPEAKING)


us/ˈspi·kər/
a person who speaks or is speaking:
Will the speaker please identify herself?
literatureus/ˈspi·kər/
The speaker in a work of literature is the person who is imagined to be saying the written words, or the character who speaks a monologue (= a long speech)

Examples of speaker


speaker
So speakers may merge in minimal pair lists but still maintain a phonetic distinction in conversational style.
As speakers and listeners use particular lexical, semantic, and syntactic representations, some of these representations become bound into routines.
As reported in all these studies, however, there is a fair amount of variability in speakers' intuitions of syllabification, even when dialect is controlled for.
Participants were told that they would hear a set of texts presented over two speakers.
On teaching the standard variety to speakers of dialectal or sociolectal varieties.
Because most nonnative speakers will have a noticeable accent with or without instruction, should pronunciation be taught?
The remaining keynote speakers also provided plenty of food-for-thought, though they tended to remain more tightly focused on the particular rather than the general.
Thus, although speakers make choices as individuals, they typically behave as group members in that most make the same or similar linguistic choices.
The main categories (informative utterances, simple directives and directives with description) reached 40% of the total number of the utterances produced by the speakers.
It is of course not always clear how a sequence of words produced by a very inexperienced speaker should to be divided into utterances.
He wants to save the language, and make its speakers literate in their own tongue before it is too late.
Perhaps other interviewees, mixed with rueful chuckles of those who simply identify with the speaker's disenchantment.
However, the speaker's voice and the other person's voice do not merge.
For any given speaker role and utterance context, certain acts are more likely to be performed than others.
Using a single speaker placed beside the instrument is one solution which solves the 'disembodied instrument' issue.
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Collocations withspeaker


speaker

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adult speaker
We also extracted offers in the guise of repairs to a child's term made by the adult speaker.
after-dinner speaker
He certainly made the kind of speech for which, as a professional after-dinner speaker, he might have been paid a high fee.
From the
Hansard archive

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bilingual speaker
In this case, the manager consulted with a bilingual speaker before printing out the final version of the notice.
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