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A pamphleteer is someone who — short booklets or , usually arguing a political, religious, or public point, not telling a story for fun. The noun is the main use: in history, pamphleteers were the people who flooded the streets with cheap arguments, especially in centuries when a could start a quarrel or a war of words. The word can be dry and respectful, or a little , as if the person is not a serious author but someone pouring out public argument. It is also a verb, though a less common one: to pamphleteer is to write or spread this kind of writing. You will meet it in history class and in comments on noisy public debate more than in everyday chat.
政論小冊作者;寫文宣、傳單來鼓吹主張的人
組成pamphlet + -eer. The ending -eer (from French -ier, from Latin -ārius) means “a person who does this.”
同家族的字
- pamphleta pamphleteer is a person who writes pamphlets
原始詞典資料2 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。
pamphleteernoun/ˌpæmfləˈtɪɹ/
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A writer, publisher, or distributer of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist.
- The Commons are very slow in bringing in their Bill to limit the press, and the pamphleteers make good use of their time; for there come out three or four every day.
- but Charles Reade, an artist, a scholar, a man with a true sense of beauty, raging and roaring over the abuses of contemporary life like a common pamphleteer or a sensational journalist, is really a sight for the angels to weep over.
pamphleteerverb/ˌpæmfləˈtɪɹ/
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To publish and distribute pamphlets as a form of propaganda.
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。