| 单词 | upstage |
| 释义 | upstage (once / 16624 pages) advvnadj To upstage is to steal the show. If you try to upstage your "Grease" costar, you'll attempt to pull the audience's attention away from him and onto you at the back of the stage doing cartwheels. A child actor might accidentally upstage an adult simply by being adorable, or a minor character could upstage the star of a play with an amazing performance. When you upstage someone, the audience's focus shifts from that person to you. Another way to use the verb upstage is to describe the acting technique of moving back on the stage, away from the audience, so that another actor must turn her back toward them. WORD FAMILYupstage: upstaged, upstager, upstages, upstaging+/upstager: upstagers USAGE EXAMPLESThe most dramatic possible outcome would be for the SIS participants, or at least some of them, to upstage their mentors. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) But you don’t want it to upstage the main event. The Guardian(Dec 02, 2016) Standing in male-female pairs, they face upstage, and as the music starts, the men swing into arabesque facing the audience. New York Times(Nov 21, 2016) 1adv at or toward the rear of the stage the dancers were directed to move upstage Ant downstage at or toward the front of the stage 2v steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the actress Hyper outshine attract more attention and praise than others 3v move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience Hyper displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 4v treat snobbishly, put in one's place Hyper do by, handle, treat interact in a certain way 5n the rear part of the stage Hyper part, portion something less than the whole of a human artifact 6adj of the back half of a stage she crossed to the upstage chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the audience Ant downstage of the front half of a stage 7adj remote in manner he was upstage with strangers Syn aloof, distant reserved marked by self-restraint and reticence |
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