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单词 protester
释义
protester
noun[C]
(alsoprotestor)
uk
/prəˈtes.tər/us
/prəˈtes.tɚ/
someone whoshowsthat theydisagreewith something bystandingsomewhere,shouting,carryingsigns, etc.
抗议者，抗议人士
Examples
  • Apeaceprotester wasconditionallydischargedfor twelvemonths.
  • The protesters wereconductedfrom thecourtroomby twopoliceofficers.
  • The protestersrefusedto becowedintosubmissionby thearmy.
  • The protestersblockingtheentranceto theofficesremaineddefiantthismorning.
  • Themeetingwasdisruptedby agroupof protesters whoshoutedandthrewfruitat thespeaker.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Activism & pressure groups
  • activism
  • activist
  • agitation
  • agitator
  • agitprop
  • clicktivism
  • clicktivist
  • counter-demonstrate
  • counter-demonstration
  • counter-demonstrator
  • identity politics
  • insurgency
  • insurrection
  • interest group
  • lobbyist
  • social entrepreneur
  • special interest group
  • super-lobbyist
  • super-militant
  • take a kneeidiom
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(Definition ofprotesterfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

protester| Business English

protester
noun[C]
uk
/prəˈtestər/us
someone whoprotestspubliclyabout something,especiallyaspartof agroup:
Up to 100,000 protesters areexpectedtomarch.
anti-war/civilrightsprotesters
someone whocomplainsstronglyabout something:
fuel/tax protestersThepartyleadershiphasbackedfuelprotesters andtheircallsforlowerpetroltaxes.
(Definition ofprotesterfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprotester

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In their critiques, protesters focused on the policies of the government rather than people's attitudes.
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The protesters are usually treated well when they seek to meet with higher-level officials and the authorities often send them home in official vehicles.
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In a sense, having a lobby like antibiotechnology protesters should spur the scientists to develop communication skills and come out and answer the public's questions.
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Not only did the regime and its supporters (illogically) castigate the protesters for politicising sport, they disparaged their corporeality.
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In this situation, protesters were tempted to look at other examples.
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It was for the shared experiences on these marches that the protesters became, in their perception, tied up with a global movement.
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In the case of the latter, women protesters may peacefully visit the houses, palaces and meeting places of communal leaderships.
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Another decried the protesters' ' uncouth behaviour ' and their ' spitting and cursing ' (p. 144).
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As the war intensified, the tension between my academic andprotesterpersona exacerbated.
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It was rather because the protesters in the early 1960s had managed to broaden the appeal of radical pacifism.
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The linkage suggests that many gangsters and street protesters share an anti-state disposition.
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His essay draws out the national and international limits to claims that the organisations had forged a transnational milieu of protesters and habits of protesting.
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Some say it was horrible because of conditions surrounding the environment, having to walk through a crowd of screaming protesters.
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In the urban activism of the '60s and '70s, protesters might chain themselves to trees to protect a park.
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They were protesters and, in the politically judgemental language of the time, they were rioters and comprised a mob.
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