| 词汇 | onstage |
| 释义 | onstage adverb (alsoon-stage, on stage)uk /ˌɒnˈsteɪdʒ/ us /ˌɑːnˈsteɪdʒ/ onto or on a stage so the people watching can see: 上台演出地，上场地; 在台上表演地 The audience cheered as the band walked onstage for another encore.乐队应观众的要求走上舞台又加演一曲时，观众们欢呼了起来。 I was terrified the first time I got up on-stage. What's it like when people throw their underwear at you on stage? (of a performer, actor, etc.) when acting in a play or film, etc., or taking part in some other kind of performance, rather than in real life: He's very mild-mannered in real life but onstage, he's crazy. The characters have to remain "chic" at all times, something they have found easier on-stage than off it. Compare offstageadverb Theatres, cinemas & their parts apron art house arthouse backdrop backstage billboard bioscope fleapit footlights green room loge orchestra pit scenery spotlight stage left stage right stagily stagy strip light wing onstage adjective (alsoon-stage)uk /ˌɒnˈsteɪdʒ/ us /ˌɑːnˈsteɪdʒ/ happening on the stage, so the people watching can see: Have there been any difficult onstage moments? An on-stage accident badly injured one of the dancers. : used for describing a performer or their behaviour when they are acting in a play or film, etc., or taking part in some other kind of performance, rather than in their own life: The dancers' partners were said to be jealous of the couple's onstage sexual chemistry. Her shyness is quite at odds with her on-stage demeanour. Compare offstageadjective Theatres, cinemas & their parts apron art house arthouse backdrop backstage billboard bioscope fleapit footlights green room loge orchestra pit scenery spotlight stage left stage right stagily stagy strip light wing onstage | American Dictionaryonstage adjective, adverb[ not gradable ] us/ˈɔnˈsteɪdʒ, ˈɑn-/ on the stage of a theater or other place where people are performing: Rock stars usually show up onstage looking just the way you want them to. Examples of onstageonstage The predominance of present time - both onstage and in the music - which characterises opera is manifested primarily in solo singing. The explosion of onstage energy which this dance represents is one of the few moments of 'action' during the piece. These items were only visible to a single onstage performer, whose varying reactions (or grim determination not to react) were carefully scrutinized by those offstage. The performers have to step outside the pretence of a coherent 'real' onstage world in order to acknowledge the audience's presence. Publicity around the star's feistiness offstage lent the flavour of autobiography to the twice-daily action onstage. With all these comings and goings, there really is a moment that we cannot easily say if they are onstage or not. Joan did it as part of the ordinary dialogue onstage. However, when she exits the building, it is as if she has arrived onstage. In opera music is for the listener alone - the characters onstage do not hear their music and there is no mediating beholder. And finally, are the doors we see on television the same as those we have encountered onstage for the past two and a half millennia? Inscrutability and strangeness, and the distance (and tensions) between onstage and offstage masculinities, are two ideas that emerge from our pieces. But whenever a sound or voice is heard onstage (and in the auditorium for sure), the presence of the offstage becomes impossible to ignore. The language of the dialogue adds other meanings to what is shown onstage and these may be remote in both space and time. Much was undoubtedly gained in this drive for onstage consistency and interpretative intelligibility. What happens onstage becomes simply an extension of the offstage. 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. |
| 随便看 |
|
反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。