audience是什么意思（audience的用法）

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一、audience是什么意思

1、audience 听众

2、来自audible,听得见的，-ence,名词后缀。

二、audience的用法

1、audience (n.)

2、late 14c.,"the action of hearing,"from Old French audience, from Latin audentia"a hearing, listening,"from audientum (nominative audiens), present participle of audire"to hear,"from PIE compound *au-dh-"to perceive physically, grasp,"from root *au-"to perceive"(cognates: Greek aisthanesthai"to feel;"Sanskrit avih, Avestan avish"openly, evidently;"Old Church Slavonic javiti"to reveal"). Meaning"formal hearing or reception"is from late 14c.; that of"persons within hearing range, assembly of listeners"is from early 15c. (French audience retains only the older senses). Sense transferred 1855 to"readers of a book."Audience-participation (adj.) first recorded 1940.

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