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

• If everyone was something of a showman, nobody ultimately was victimized.
  假如人人都是主持演出的人，最终就不会有人上当了。
• On the other side, Donald Trump, an American television showman and property magnate, tweeted that Ms Mayer was right to expect Yahoo employees to come to the workplace vs. working at home.
  而另一边，美国电视主持人兼房地产大亨&唐纳德·特朗普（donaldtrump）在推特上表示，梅耶尔女士的做法合情合理，应该让雅虎员工来工作场所工作，而不是在家。
• On Language Features of Program Showman Speaking
  试论节目主持人说话的语体特征
• 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。
• If Craig Venter, the great Showman of molecular biology, has his way, 2009 will see the first creation of a living cell from laboratory chemicals.
  如果喜欢做秀的伟大分子生物学家克雷格文特（craigventer）能够随心所欲，那么2009年将诞生第一个在实验室里、由化学物质创造出的活体细胞。
• 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。
• Jackson was the supreme showman who had an unrivalled knack of grabbing headlines.
  杰克逊是谁最高表演了一个无与伦比的诀窍抓住头条新闻。
• After the show the showman began to make dinner.
  节目表演完后，团主开始做晚餐。
• 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。
• 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。