| 单词 | reading public |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreading public reading public n. that part of the population which regularly reads newspapers, books, etc., considered collectively; those people who regularly read a particular periodical or type of periodical. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > reader > [noun] > collectively audience1760 reading public1812 eyes1919 eyeball1970 1812 W. Scott Let. to Byron 3 July in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott xxiv Besides this debt, which I owe your Lordship in common with the rest of the reading public, [etc.]. 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 94/2 The ‘reading public’, then, had little to do with the lower orders. a1936 R. Kipling Something of Myself (1937) iii. 47 Our reading public..were..as well educated as fifty per cent of our ‘staff’. 1975 S. Schoenbaum W. Shakespeare xi. 120 A dramatist had least to say about..publication... He strove, after all, to please audiences in the theatre, not a reading public. 2004 D. Dalton Rough Guide Philippines 438 In the 1850s the French, British and American reading public were titillated by accounts of Igorot bloodlust written by European missionaries. < as lemmas |
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