publicity

publicity 宣传，报道

来自public,公众的，公开的，-ity,名词后缀。

publicity (n.)

1791, "condition of being public," from French publicité (1690s), from Medieval Latin publicitatem (nominative publicitas), from Latin publicus (see public (adj.)). Sense of "a making (something) known, an exposure to the public" is from 1826, shading by c. 1900 into "advertising, business of promotion." Publicity stunt first recorded 1908.

1. The company was privatised with a fanfare of publicity.

公司的私有化搞得沸沸扬扬。

2. Now he plans to rev up publicity with a regional media campaign.

现在他准备通过开展地区性的媒体活动加大宣传力度。

3. Norma is said to dislike the glare of publicity.

据说诺尔玛不喜欢被人过多关注。

4. They felt they were being sucked into a whirlpool of publicity.

他们觉得好像陷入了一个宣传的漩涡中。

5. The publicity-shy singer spoke frankly in his first interview in three years.

这位不喜欢抛头露面的歌手在3年来的首次访谈中畅所欲言。

【peculiarity, quality, attribute, feature, property, characteristic, publicity, trait, character, popularity】
peculiarity: 独具的或奇怪的特点，常带感情色彩；
quality: 既可指有形或无形的特性，又可指个性或共性的特征；
attribute: 通常指人主观赋予某事物的属性，可指典型事物
feature: 指事物突出引人注目的特点。多用来说明人的容貌特征或地理特征；
property: 多指同类事物所共有的特性，一般不用于指人；
characteristic: 指某人或某物天生有别于他人或他物的内部特质或外表特征；
publicity: 公开，宣传；
trait: 多指人的性格、心情的特征，尤指先天秉赋的持久的行为模式或性格特征；
character: 多指一类人或事物所具有的独特的典型的特征；
popularity: 普遍，流行；