| 单词 | attention-seeker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasattention-seeker attention-seeker n. a person who deliberately seeks to draw attention to himself or herself, often by means of disruptive or excessively extrovert behaviour. ΚΠ 1910 N.Y. Times 7 Aug. x3 Nothing is so disgusting to the people worth knowing as the girl who plays for notice. She might as well label herself ‘attention seeker’, for no one is fooled as to her actions. 1964 J. Kerouac Let. in Sel. Lett. 1957–69 (1999) 377 Now that we're all getting to be middleaged I can see that they're just frustrated hysterical provocateurs and attention-seekers with nothing on their mind but rancor toward ‘America’. 2011 S. Kelman Pigeon Eng. 179 Whatever she thinks she knows, she don't know shit. She's just an attention-seeker, that's all she is. < as lemmas |
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