lector

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
  2. A public lecturer or reader at some universities.
  3. A person who reads aloud to workers to entertain them, appointed by a trade union. US,historical
    — Its lyrical, poetic flights seem much more at home in the romantic musings of two sisters competing for the attention of the new, handsome lector, a man hired to read stories to workers in a Florida cigar factory, who might otherwise be mesmerized by the repetitive boredom of their jobs.
  4. A person doing voice-over translation of foreign films, especially in Eastern European countries.
    — The Hungarian viewer of The Colbert Report wants to experience authentic American comedy, and the lector—like an interpreter performing chuchotage at a high-level meeting of heads of state—serves primarily as a check on the viewer's grasp of the real thing.
动词 v.
  1. To perform service as a lector in a religious context.
  2. To do a voice-over translation of a film.
    — How much of Colbert's political satire can be truly grasped by a Hungarian viewer of a lectored episode is slightly beside the point: something gets through.

词形变化

lectors plural lectour alternative,obsolete lectors present,singular,third-person lectoring participle,present lectored participle,past lectored past lectour alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
archlector caveat lector lectorship lectress
相关词
lectern lection lectionary lecture

词源

词源 1
From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“to read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor. Doublet of lecture and lecturer.
词源 2
From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“to read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor. Doublet of lecture and lecturer.
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