摘要：audience 既指听众,又指观众,而spectator 仅指观众,尤指体育比赛的观众:

1.audience 既指听众,又指观众,而spectator 仅指观众,尤指体育比赛的观众:

The audience was/were clapping for 10 minutes.

观众鼓掌10分钟。(其是集合名词，当其是主语时，若强调整体则其谓语动词用单数形式，若强调多个成员则其谓语动词用复数形式。本人有专门文章论述该词用法，欢迎查阅)

Then the curtain descended ; and the audience dispersed slowly.

然后帷幕落下了,观众们慢慢地散去了。

The radio programme has an audience of several' million.

广播节目有几百万听众。

The concert will be relayed to a worldwide television audience estimated at one thousand million.

这场音乐会将向全球约10亿电视观众转播。

He didn't really get his meaning over to the audience.

他未能完全把他的意思向听众讲清楚。

He wowed audiences around the country with his new show.

他以他的新节目博得了全国各地观众的交口称赞。

The show was rated a success by critics and audiences.

评论家和观众都认为这次演出是成功的。

A radio announcer may have an audience of millions.

一个广播员可能拥有数百万名听众。

The performance produced much mirth among the audience.

这场演出使观众笑声不断。

spectator（尤指体育比赛的）观看者，观众；旁观者，目击者

All the football match spectators were able to observe order in the stadium.

球赛观众都能遵守会场秩序。

The police, raining blows on rioters and spectators alike, cleared the park

警察不分闹事者与观众统统一顿猛击，把人们清除出了足球场。

About 10,000 spectators were watching the game.

约有1万名观众在观看比赛。

The spectators rose to their feet to pay tribute to an outstanding performance.

观众们都站了起来,为这一精彩的表演喝彩。

The most popular spectator sport is football.

观赏性强、最受欢迎的体育运动是足球。

The stadium has been fitted with seating for over eighty thousand spectators.

这个体育场配备了8万多个观众座席。

Thousands of spectators came to the city for the horse race.

数以千计的观众来到这座城市观看赛马。

Thirty thousand spectators watched the final game.

3 万名观众观看了决赛。

2.在语法上,audience是个集合名词(见audience),不能用来指个体,而spectator是个可数名词,可以用来指个人。

Without an audience the performance is pointless.

没有观众，表演就不成其为表演了。《亮剑》里的台词。

An audience of millions watched the wedding on TV.

几百万观众在电视上观看了婚礼。

He was speaking to an audience of students at the Institute for International Affairs.

他在国际事务学院给学生们作演讲。

The show appeals to an audience of a certain age.

这个节目中年观众感兴趣。

A fat spectator obstructed our view of the stage.

一个肥胖观众挡住了我们朝向看台的视线。

Spectators were ranged along the whole route of the procession.

旁

The flag was held the wrong way up by some spectators

一些观众把旗子拿倒了。观者排列在整个游行路线的两侧。

A band played salsa, and spectators danced wildly.

乐队演奏萨尔萨舞曲，观众们纵情跳舞。

The game ended a few hours too early, leaving players and spectators unsatisfied

那场比赛提早几个小时结束了，球员和观众都很失望。

The spectators were wilting visibly in the hot sun.

看得出观众在炎热的阳光下快支撑不住了。

The stadium holds 75 000 spectators.

该体育场可容纳7.5万名观众。

来源：翅膀英语一点号