喜樂美語
  1. 1n/flæk/公關發言人（美、口語）

    口語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.

    文法可數名詞：前面可以加 a/an，要表示複數時常常加 -s。

    flack 是被推到前面接問題的那個人。這個字是口語，而且是美式用法。它也特別用在出事之後。這一點決定了它的語氣。它指的是「拿錢來處理問題的人」。所以聽起來會比 spokesperson 或 press officer 隨便一些，有時候不太尊敬。同一個字也可以說得比較平：就是公關人員。它可數，複數是 flacks。

    示範例句 · Example

    The company sent a flack to answer questions after the recall.

    中文翻譯那家公司在召回之後派了一位公關去回答問題。

    A flack is the person who stands in front of an organisation and takes the questions. The word is informal and American English, and it is used especially when something bad has happened. That detail shapes the feeling of the word: it points at someone paid to handle the questions, so it can sound less respectful than spokesperson or press officer. The same word can also be put more plainly, as a publicist. It is countable, and the plural is flacks.

    常見搭配

    • a company flack

      公司的公關

      the person who speaks publicly for a company

      A company flack read the statement outside the building.

    • hire a flack

      請一個公關

      to employ someone to handle public questions for you

      They hired a flack the week the story broke.

    • lobbyists and flacks

      說客與公關

      people paid to influence opinion on behalf of an organisation

      They spent millions on lobbyists and flacks to improve their image.

    意思相近

    spokespersonpublicistpress officerPR person

    意思相反

    reporterjournalist

core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；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。

flacks

意思相近

spokespersonpublicistpress officerPR person

意思相反

reporterjournalist

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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

  • 1

    A surname.

flackverb詞源 1/flæk/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo flutter; palpitate.

  • 2

    dialectalTo hang loosely; flag.

  • 3

    dialectalTo beat by flapping.

flacknoun詞源 2/flæk/

  • 1

    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/

  • 1

    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：

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