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/ˈspoʊksˌpɜːrsən/ · /ˈspəʊksˌpɜːsən/
a person who officially speaks for a company, government, or other group, especially when you do not say if that person is a man or a woman.
發言人
複數 spokespeoplespokespersons
核心畫面
You can picture one person standing at a microphone with a whole company or government behind them. Nothing they say there is their own opinion — they are lending their voice to the group, so what comes out is heard as 'the company says', not 'I think'. The -person ending is doing real work too: it deliberately leaves the man/woman question open.
可以想成「一個團體借出去的一張嘴」：一個人站在麥克風前，身後是整間公司或整個政府。他講的每句話都不算他個人的意見，而…更多收起
可以想成「一個團體借出去的一張嘴」：一個人站在麥克風前，身後是整間公司或整個政府。他講的每句話都不算他個人的意見，而是團體的話從他嘴裡出來，所以聽的人聽到的是「公司說」，不是「他覺得」。字尾用 -person 而不是 -man，也是刻意的：不點明是男是女。原始詞典資料1 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。
spokespersonnoun/ˈspəʊkspɜːɹsən/
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A person who acts as the voice of another person or a group of people.
- News subsidies thus include making spokespersons available, producing press releases or staging pseudo-events designed to suit the media's production needs and attract the media's attention […]
- Biden and his spokespeople have proudly touted his signature COVID relief bill as a major stimulus for policing in a national context already characterized by globally unparalleled police spending.
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。