英語集合名詞audience的用法介紹

導語:單詞audience是集合名詞,一般意爲觀衆,下面YJBYS小編介紹英語集合名詞audience的用法,歡迎參考!

英語集合名詞audience的用法介紹

  1. audience是集合名詞,用作主語時,其謂語可用單數(視爲整體)或複數(視爲個體)。如:

The audience is [are] listening attentively. 聽衆都在聚精會神地聽着。

The audience was [were] enjoying every minute of the performance. 觀衆對演出非常欣賞。

The audience is [are] always very excited by a wonderful goal. 一個精彩的進球總會使觀衆們非常激動。

  2. 由於audience 是集合名詞,所以an audience 不是指“一個觀衆”,而是指某一羣觀衆、某一個場次觀衆、某一方面的觀衆等。如:

She has never spoken to such a big audience before. 她以前從未向這麼多人講過話。

He loves holding forth on any subject once he has an audience. 不管是什麼問題,只要有人聽,他就愛大發議論。

同樣地,audiences 也不是指“多個觀衆”,而是指多羣觀衆,多個場次觀衆,多個方面的觀衆等。

Entertaining audiences is the purpose of movies. 娛樂觀衆是電影的目的。

The show had to be taken off because of poor audiences. 因觀衆太少而取消演出。

She has addressed audiences all over the country. 她曾向全國各地的聽衆演講。

另外,audience作爲集合名詞,原則上不能用它表示個體,但every audience是例外,當要強調每一名觀衆時,可以這樣用。如:

The pianist made a conquest of every audience for which she played. 這位鋼琴家以她的演奏征服了每一位聽衆。

  3. 形容聽(觀)衆人數之多或少,通常用big, large, huge, mass, vast, wide 以及small, thin等形容詞修飾,但是不用many, few修飾。如:

There was a large audience of young people at the pop concert. 流行音樂演奏會上有大量青年聽衆。

Her lecture had a crowded audience. 她的演講擠滿了聽衆。

The speaker had a small (thin) but attentive audience. 這位演講者的聽衆不多(很少),但很專心。

She felt nervous at having to sing before so large an audience [such a large audience]. 要在那麼多觀衆面前唱歌她感到很緊張

  4.要具體表示觀衆的數量,可參考以下表達:

There were at least three hundred people in the audience. 觀衆至少有300人。

The series has attracted an audience of more than 10 million. 這個系列片吸引了1,000多萬觀衆收看。

An audience of millions watched the royal wedding on TV. 數以百萬計的人們在電視上觀看皇家婚禮。

不過,偶爾它也可直接受數字(通常爲較大的`數字)的修飾。如:

Three thousand audience crowded the concert hall. 3,000名聽衆擠滿了音樂大廳。

  5.主要指收音機的“聽衆”,音樂會的“聽衆”,電視的“觀衆”,戲曲的“觀衆”等,若指看比賽(如足球賽)的“觀衆”,則用spectator。