paparazzi

英 [,pɑːpə'rɑːtsiː] 美

paparazzi: paparazzi: [20] In Federico Fellini’s film La Dolce Vita (1959), a press photographer who pesters celebrities is called Paparazzo (the name was supplied by the writer of the film’s scenario, Ennio Flaiano, who in turn got it from Sulle Rive dello Ionio (1957), Margherita Guidacci’s translation of George Gissing’s travel book By the Ionian Sea (1901), in which a restaurantowner is called Coriolano Paparazzo). By the late 1960s the name, usually in the Italian plural form paparazzi, had entered English as a generic term for such intrusive snappers.
paparazzi (n.): 1961, from Italian Paparazzo (plural paparazzi) surname of the freelance photographer in Federico Fellini's 1959 film "La Dolce Vita." The surname itself is of no special significance; it is said to be a common one in Calabria, and Fellini is said to have borrowed it from a travel book, "By the Ionian Sea," in which occurs the name of hotel owner Coriolano Paparazzo.

2. It seemed difficult for the celebrity couple to get rid of the ubiquitous paparazzi.: 这对名人夫妻想要摆脱无所不在的狗仔队似乎很困难。

4. Rarely did the paparazzi think of her reaction to their pursuit.: 这些狗仔队鲜少考虑到她对他们的紧追不舍作何反应.