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theater 或 the·a·tre AHD[thēʹə-tər] D.J.[ˈθiːətə]K.K.[ˈθiətɚ]n.（名词）abbr. theat.【缩写】- A building, room, or outdoor structure for the presentation of plays, films, or other dramatic performances.剧院：上演话剧、电影或其它戏剧的建筑、房屋或露天结构
- A room with tiers of seats used for lectures or demonstrations:讲堂：用于演讲或示范的有阶梯座位的房屋：an operating theater at a medical school.医学院的手术示范室
- Dramatic literature or its performance; drama:戏剧：戏剧作品或其表演；戏剧：the theater of Shakespeare and Marlowe.莎士比亚和马罗的戏剧
- The milieu of actors and playwrights.戏剧界：演员或剧作家的社会环境
- The quality or effectiveness of a theatrical production:戏剧效果：戏剧作品的质量或效果：good theater; awful theater.好的戏剧效果；极坏的戏剧效果
- Dramatic material or the use of such material:戏剧体裁：戏剧材料及其应用："His summation was a great piece of courtroom theater"(Ron Rosenbaum)“他的总结是个很好的法庭戏剧材料”(罗恩·罗森鲍姆)
- The audience assembled for a dramatic performance.观众：为戏剧表演而集聚的观众
- A place that is the setting for dramatic events.戏台：为戏剧事件布景之处
- A large geographic area in which military operations are coordinated:战场：协调军事行动的大范围地理区域：the European theater during World War II.二战中的欧洲战场
- Middle English theatre 中古英语 theatre
- from Old French 源自 古法语
- from Latin theātrum 源自 拉丁语 theātrum
- from Greek theatron 源自 希腊语 theatron
- from theasthai [to watch] 源自 theasthai [观看]
- from thea [a viewing] 源自 thea [观看]
注释- Those who have theories about the theater are no doubt quite observant,at least the etymology of the word leads one to think so.The wordstheory and theater are related in ancestry if we look back to the Greek sources of our words. The Greek ancestor oftheater is theatron, "a place for seeing, especially for dramatic representation, theater.” Theatron is derived quite logically from the verb theasthai, "to gaze at, contemplate, view as spectators, especially in the theater,” fromthea, "a viewing.” The Greek ancestor oftheory is theōria, which meant among other things"the sending oftheōroi (state ambassadors sent to consult oracles or attend games),” "the act of being a spectator at the theater or games,” "viewing,” "contemplation by the mind,” and "theory or speculation.” The source oftheōria, theōros, "an envoy sent to consult an oracle, spectator,” is a compound of thea, "viewing,” and -oros, "seeing.” Thus, viewing is at the root of a theory and the theater.有戏剧理论的人无疑是相当善于观察的，至少这个词的词源学让我们这么想。如果我们追溯它们的希腊词源，单词theory 和 theater 的起源相关。 theater 的希腊语前身是 theatron （“尤指看喜剧表演的地方，剧院”）。 theatreon 相当符合逻辑地来自动词 theasthai （“盯着，注视，观看，尤指在剧院作为观众”）， 来自thea, “观看”。 theory 的希腊语前身是 theoria ， 其意义介于其它几件事物之间，它们是“派遣theoroi （派出咨询神谕或参加竟技会的政府使节）”“在剧院或竞技会上作为观众的行为”，“观看”，“专心注视”，和“看法和推测”。 theoria,theoros （“派出咨询神谕的使节；观众”）是 thea （“观看”）和 -oros （“看见”）的复合词。 这样，观看是theory（理论）和theater（剧院）的根源
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