| 词汇 | captive-audience |
| 释义 | captive audience noun[ C ] uk /ˌkæp.tɪv ˈɔː.di.əns/ us /ˌkæp.tɪv ˈɑː.di.əns/ a group of people who listen to or watch someone or something because they cannot leave不得不听的观众；不得不观看的观众 Audiences and spectators behind closed doorsidiom bums on seatsidiom bystander casual observer closed consumption fan park fly on the wallidiom flâneur goer innocent bystander non-viewer observer onlooker operagoer pep rally spectator supporter viewership watcher Examples of captive audiencecaptive audience Hate speech that does not involve a captiveaudience would not fall within the scope of such a regulation. Theatre foyers have wall space and a captiveaudience. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Johnny maintains a presence in the household, occasionally appearing to the benefits of free meals and the captiveaudience that the estranged adolescents provide at the kitchen table. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Finally, we might consider restricting hate speech to speech that is suitably hard to avoid and so involves a captiveaudience. They are a captiveaudience, let us make the most of them. Personal and political agendas were often bound up together, and a captiveaudience over a dinner table was too good an opportunity to pass up. This hucksterism speaks to a captiveaudience in industrialized societies that increasingly appears to believe that something can and should always be 'done' to counter disease and death. Children are a captiveaudience—even in these days—in their classrooms. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has a captiveaudience for the commuter service it provides in the south-east. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Here is a captiveaudience, and good use could be made of modern methods of getting ideas across to it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The curse of the concertgoer is when well-meaning programme makers push in a piece which the captiveaudience would otherwise have avoided. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A public service cannot thrive on a captiveaudience. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They admit that they are a sort of captiveaudience. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Primary schoolchildren are a more captiveaudience; they are less likely to vote with their feet and leave the dining room than secondary school pupils. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Prison does at least provide the setting for a much more pro-active approach to a literally captiveaudience. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of captive audience These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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