| 释义 |
Noun: background 'bak`grawnd- A person's social heritage: previous experience or training
"he is a lawyer with a sports background" - The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
"he posed her against a background of rolling hills"
- ground - Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
"the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"
- background knowledge - Extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
"they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"
- background signal - Relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
"when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background" - The state of the environment in which a situation exists
- setting, scope - (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
- desktop, screen background - Scenery hung at back of stage
- backdrop, backcloth
Verb: background 'bak`grawnd- Understate the importance or quality of
- play down, downplay
Derived forms: backgrounds, backgrounding, backgrounded See also: backgrounder Type of: accent, accentuate, accompaniment, aspect, attendant, concomitant, co-occurrence, CRT screen, disturbance, emphasise [Brit], emphasize, environment, heritage, information, inheritance, interference, noise, panorama, prospect, punctuate, scene, scenery, screen, stress, view, vista Antonym: foreground Encyclopedia: Background |