| 单词 | background |
| 释义 | background (once / 258 pages) nv Background is what’s behind something — whether it’s physical, like a play’s scenery, or intangible, like a person's life story or the past facts of a current situation. If you are shy, you might try to stay in the background at parties and avoid attention. The original idea of background was the use of stage scenery or painted drops that established a play's setting. Later, the idea expanded to include the figurative meaning of something that was present yet not immediately noticed, such as the background music in a movie. It also came to mean material that happened earlier and contributed to something. If your new boss does a "background check" on you, it's because she wants to know all the trouble you've caused in the past. WORD FAMILYbackground: backgrounded, backgrounder, backgrounding, backgrounds+/backgrounder: backgrounders USAGE EXAMPLESBut other Navy officials, who spoke on background with The Times, said nerves are on edge over Mr. Duterte’s negative posturing toward the U.S. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Gun control advocates say enforcement of the current background checks system is as much a policy goal as expanding background checks. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) A commission appointed to study the issue in 2015 suggested more money be tied to individual students’ background. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground he posed her against a background of rolling hills Syn|Hyper ground aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, view, vista the visual percept of a region 2n scenery hung at back of stage Syn|Hyper backcloth, backdrop scene, scenery the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale 3n (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear Syn|Hyper desktop, screen background CRT screen, screen the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube 4n relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background Hyper accompaniment, attendant, co-occurrence, concomitant an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another 5n the state of the environment in which a situation exists Syn|Hypo|Hyper scope, setting canvas, canvass the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account show window, showcasea setting in which something can be displayed to best effect environment the totality of surrounding conditions 6n a person's social heritage, previous experience, or training he is a lawyer with a sports background Hyper heritage, inheritance any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors 7n information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident Syn|Hyper background knowledge information knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction 8n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper background signal background noise, ground noise extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal background radiationradiation coming from sources other than those being observed surface noisenoise produced by the friction of the stylus of a record player moving over the rotating record disturbance, interference, noise electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication 9v understate the importance or quality of Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper downplay, play down foreground, highlight, play up, spotlight move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent wave off dismiss as insignificant soft-pedalplay down or obscure accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress to stress, single out as important |
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