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A claque is a group of people who clap, cheer, or say yes to everything a politician, a singer, or some other public person does. In the old days, theatres sometimes hired people to sit in the audience and on purpose, so the show would look loved. Today the word is often used with a cold eye: it suggests the praise is not honest, but arranged, paid for, or given by loyal followers who never disagree. It is a rare, rather formal word — you will see it in news comments more than hear it in the street.
捧場團（受雇或死忠、幾乎什麼都鼓掌叫好的一群人）
組成Borrowed from French claque, which meant a group hired to clap or to boo, and literally “a slap” or “a clap”.
同家族的字
- claqueura person who belongs to a claque
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
claquenoun/ˈklæk/
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A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo.
- The most popular singers have been obliged to give free tickets and even to donate cash, lest the claque retaliate by frantic applause at the wrong moment.
- The claque isn't paid. In fact, claqueurs pay to get in. The inducement is that they can buy standing room for half price, without waiting in line.
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A group of fawning admirers.
- The most obvious gay connection to opera is the cult of the diva. Stauncher even than the fans of Garland of Striesand, the claques of Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland (among others) have been fanatical in their devotion. Going beyond the usual "appreciation stage" the fans glorify and deify their stars: Callas was "La Divina," Sutherland "La Stupenda."
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A group of people who pre-arrange among themselves to express strong support for an idea, so as to give the false impression of a wider consensus.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。