释义 |
‖ paparazzo|papaˈrattso| Pl. paparazzi. [It.] A free-lance photographer who pursues celebrities to take their pictures. Also attrib.
1968Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 29 Nov. 66/4 The anticipated horde of detested paparazzi—those scavenging Italian street photographers whose sole purpose appears to be to make every film celebrity's life a misery. 1972W. Garner Ditto, Brother Rat! xxii. 163 Pik..hoisted his camera and began zip-click-zipping at the delegation like a paparazzo who's suddenly found nothing between him and royalty in the nude. 1972N.Y. Times 6 July 1 United States District Court Judge Irving Ben Cooper ruled yesterday that the activities of Ronald E. Galella, the self-styled ‘paparazzo’ photographer, had ‘relentlessly invaded’ the right to privacy of Mrs. Aristotle Onassis. 1974V. Gielgud In Such a Night vii. 64 The Roman paparazzi..are so frequently the terror of film-actors with thin skins. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 1439/4 The London Clinic which she had entered a week before with the defiant exclamation to the vulturine paparazzi at the entrance, ‘Don't think I'm coming here to die, I'm not.’ 1977Maclean's Mag. 21 Mar. 64/1 If Margaret was troubled by the publicity or the paparazzi that followed her during her New York stay, she certainly didn't show it. |