claque

• n. 拍手喝彩者；一群谄媚者

拟声词，模仿鼓掌的声音。原指戏院里面花钱雇来鼓掌捧场的人。

1. a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance

claque (n.)

1860, from French claque "band of claqueurs," agent noun from claquer "to clap" (16c.), echoic (compare clap (v.)). Modern sense of "band of political followers" is transferred from that of "organized applause at theater." Claqueur "audience memeber who gives pre-arranged responses in a theater performance" is in English from 1837.

This method of aiding the success of public performances is very ancient; but it first became a permanent system, openly organized and controlled by the claquers themselves, in Paris at the beginning of the nineteenth century. [Century Dictionary]

Claque: a group of persons hired to applaud at a performance.

捧场者: 演出时雇来鼓掌的一帮人.

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