publicity的读法

1. a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution;

   "the packaging of new ideas"
   

2. the quality of being open to public view;

   "the publicity of the court room"
   

1.宣传；报道
Publicity is information or actions that are intended to attract the public's attention to someone or something.

e.g. Much advancepublicity was given to the talks...
对于这次会谈有很多前期报道。
e.g. ...governmentpublicity campaigns...
宣传活动

2.（媒体或公众的）关注
When the news media and the public show a lot of interest in something, you can say that it is receivingpublicity.

e.g. The case has generated enormouspublicity in Brazil.
这个案件已经在巴西引起了极大的关注。
e.g. ...the renewedpublicity over the Casey affair.
对凯西事件的再次关注

1. The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.
   这位歌星的婚事引起公众很大的注意。
2. I asked Tom to give the publicity to the fact.
   我要求汤姆把事实公布于众。
3. The British press has given considerable publicity to it.
   英国出版界对它已经做了很多宣传。

• Once notoriety had been achieved, he lived always in the glare of publicity.

  出自：F. Raphael

• ☆ 直接源自中世纪拉丁语的publicitatem；最初源自拉丁语的publicus，意为公开。