| 释义 |
televiewer|ˈtɛlɪˌvjuːə(r)|
[f. tele- 2 + viewer.]
One who watches television.
1935Discovery Oct. 285/2 An excellent answer to the questions of the..would-be ‘televiewer’. 1937Daily Herald 2 Feb. 3/4 Televiewers will not have to change over a switch on their sets each week to suit the alternate systems of transmission. 1950Sun (Baltimore) 4 Jan. 18/2 Thirty-nine per cent of the entire television and radio broadcast audience during this period were Baltimore televiewers. 1957E. Hyams Into Dream i. v. 40 There was Dentix: a half-tone of a face well known to televiewers leered out of the page. 1971L. Koppett N.Y. Times Guide Spectator Sports 3 Many televiewers..had no prior intention to watch a football or basketball game. 1982Daily Tel. 20 Sept. 15/7 Millions of televiewers around the world saw the moving spectacle of Prince Rainier's grief.
So ˈteleview v. intr., to watch television (rare); ˈteleviewing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1935Times 15 May 13/2 The German Post Office yesterday opened the first public televiewing post outside Berlin.. at Potsdam. 1945Cooke & Markus Electronics Dict. 382 Teleview, to watch a scene by means of a television system. 1956Encyl. Brit. Bk. of Year 492/2 Televiewing, formerly used as a noun, now appearing as an adjective, as in the phrase ‘televiewing families’, meaning families habituated to watching television. 1959New Statesman 4 July 10/1 People still like and are permitted to laugh, and occasionally break off from televiewing to have a go at the printed word. 1960Twentieth Cent. Dec. 541 A considerable impression was made..upon the televiewing public. 1976Listener 23 Sept. 366/2 My own loss of televiewing had no effect on the number of times I hit anybody. 1982Economist 5 June 25 By overestimating the numbers who would come, instead of teleview, they left sellers of hot dogs and papal souvenirs bankrupt. 1982Nature 9 Dec. 468/2 Channel 4..seems to have won the allegiance of a mere four per cent of the British televiewing audience. |