| 单词 | theater |
| 释义 | theater (once / 185 pages) n If you are sitting in a crowd of people watching actors on a stage, you're probably in a theater. If the performance is projected on a large screen, you're in a movie theater. The Greek word for theater (theatron) comes from the verb theasthai, meaning “behold.” You are likely to behold a play or a film inside a theater. If you've dedicated your life to theater, you are probably an actor, director or playwright. Remember when you yelled “fire!” in a crowded theater and got arrested? That wasn't funny. WORD FAMILYtheater: theaters, theatrical+/theatrical: theatricality, theatrically, theatricals, untheatrical/theatricality: theatricalities/untheatrical: untheatrically USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s 55 minutes of poetry and prose, at the Public Theater. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Joe’s Pub, the glimmering nightclub at the Public Theater, bursts with laughter and cheers. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) “The theater world is very patriarchal,” she said. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented Syn|Hypo|Hyper house, theatre arena theater, theater in the round a theater arranged with seats around at least three sides of the stage cinema, movie house, movie theater, movie theatre, picture palacea theater where films are shown dinner theater, dinner theatrea theater at which dinner is included in the price of admission home theater, home theatretelevision and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater little theater, little theatrea small theater for experimental drama or collegiate or community groups music hall, vaudeville theater, vaudeville theatrea theater in which vaudeville is staged opera, opera housea building where musical dramas are performed bioscopea South African movie theater fleapitan old shabby movie theater multiplexa movie theater than has several different auditoriums in the same building building, edifice a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place 2n the art of writing and producing plays Syn|Hypo|Hyper dramatic art, dramatics, dramaturgy, theatre stage the theater as a profession (usually `the stage') communicating, communication the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information 3n a region in which active military operations are in progress he served in the Vietnam theater for three years Syn|Hyper field, field of operations, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations region a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth |
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