| 词汇 | limelight |
| 释义 | the limelight noun[ S ] uk /ˈlaɪm.laɪt/ us /ˈlaɪm.laɪt/ public attention and interest: 公众关注 She's been in the limelight recently, following the release of her controversial new film.近来随着她这部颇具争议的新片的发行，她受到了公众的极大关注。 Fame and famous A-list A-lister acclaimed annal anyone catapult fore go down in the annalsidiom high-profile hit the headlinesidiom household word legend name notoriety notorious notoriously overexposed world-famous world-renowned Z-list limelight | American Dictionarylimelight noun[ U ] us/ˈlɑɪmˌlɑɪt/ public attention and interest: He always tried to avoid the limelight. Examples of the limelightthe limelight One would hardly expect otherwise as the book was thrust into the national limelight. English language learners came into the limelight since they, too, must be accounted for in these tests. This may be what pushes the mystic into the limelight, whether she seeks it or not. Some, no doubt, felt that he would do better to stick to exploration than embarking on this new career in the limelight. There are dancers, however, who love the limelight and project a visible public image. A conference is mooted, keeping public officials well supplied with club-class tickets and limelight. He was naturally shy and reserved and avoided the limelight, sometimes at considerable cost. This again confirms that it was during the period from 1918 to the late 1920s that psychoanalysis was most constantly in the public limelight. It came into the limelight in the early 2000s. Circumpolar cooperation has brought the concerns and needs of indigenous peoples into the international limelight. Now that the media limelight has dimmed and the pressure to produce dramatic results has abated, we can hope for some rational progress. Nowadays, they are in the limelight. Jumping genes hop into the evolutionary limelight. Frequently thwarted and elbowed out of the limelight as they were by these same media, historians often found it difficult to gain a hearing with public opinion. Sometimes the object of the panic is quite novel and at other times it is something which has been in existence long enough, but suddenly appears in the limelight. See all examples of the limelight These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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