喜樂美語
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    nC1

    /flæk/

    An informal American word for someone whose job is to speak for a company or organisation and answer questions about it, especially when something bad has happened.

    公關發言人（美、口語）

    複數 flacks

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

Picture the person who walks out to meet the questions. The company stays inside; one person comes down the steps with a sheet of paper and faces the reporters. That person is a flack, and what that person does — pushing the story you are paid to push — is the verb. The word is American, informal, and it always has a slight edge to it, because it points at the job rather than at what the person believes.

flack 可以想成那個走出來接問題的人。公司留在裡面，一個人拿著一張紙下樓，站到記者面前。那個人就是 flack；…更多收起flack 可以想成那個走出來接問題的人。公司留在裡面，一個人拿著一張紙下樓，站到記者面前。那個人就是 flack；而他做的事——把該推的話推出去——就是它的動詞用法。這個字是美式的、口語的，語氣裡一直帶一點稜角，因為它指的是那份工作，不是這個人心裡真正怎麼想。

原始詞典資料7 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。

Flackname

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    A surname.

flackverb詞源 1/flæk/

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    obsoleteTo flutter; palpitate.

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    dialectalTo hang loosely; flag.

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    dialectalTo beat by flapping.

flacknoun詞源 2/flæk/

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    A publicist, a publicity agent.

    • Edward Bernay, who was a consultant to the US Delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference which terminated the first World War (and who finally wound up as a flack for the United Fruit Company in Latin America), believed that propaganda and its covert marketing could effectively alter the will of the American public.
    • Thought you were flack," she said. "I'm not flack." "All right, P.R., a reporter, a novelist."

flackverb詞源 2/flæk/

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    To publicise, to promote.

    • [..] he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。