| 单词 | demonstrator |
| 释义 | demonstrator (once / 2466 pages) n If you participate in a political protest, you are a demonstrator. Demonstrate means to show, and by dint of your presence, you are showing that you agree with the protest message. Demonstrator can also mean someone who demonstrates how something works. Electrolux vacuums were sold by door-to-door salespeople who were also demonstrators––they put horrible messes down on the rug to demonstrate their vacuum's power. WORD FAMILYdemonstrator: counterdemonstrator, demonstrators+/counterdemonstration: counterdemonstrations/counterdemonstrator: counterdemonstrators/demonstrable: demonstrability, demonstrably/demonstrate: demonstrable, demonstrated, demonstrates, demonstrating, demonstration, demonstrative, demonstrator/demonstrated: demonstratedly/demonstration: counterdemonstration, demonstrations/demonstrative: demonstratively, demonstrativeness, demonstratives, undemonstrative/undemonstrative: undemonstratively USAGE EXAMPLESBy intervening, however, the central government would risk reigniting the passions that flared in 2014 when demonstrators paralysed business districts with sit-ins for several weeks. Economist(Nov 03, 2016) Five demonstrators were arrested last week in the first protests since the federal government decided against the project. Reuters(Jan 01, 2017) The silence of the march was punctuated by demonstrators who spoke each name aloud. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) 1n someone who participates in a public display of group feeling Syn|Hypo|Hyper protester counterdemonstrator someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration picketa protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer a disputant who advocates reform 2n someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer Syn|Hyper sales demonstrator sales rep, sales representative, salesperson a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited) 3n a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught Hyper instructor, teacher a person whose occupation is teaching |
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