| 单词 | theatre |
| 释义 | theatre (once / 160 pages) n A theatre is the place where plays are performed, especially in England, because the normal American spelling of theatre is theater. If you're looking for a night of drama and astonishment, try going to the theatre. Theatre comes from the Ancient Greek theatron, which means a place for showing, or performing. Now we call the place and the stuff performed the same thing. There are theatres where other things happen than plays. A theatre of war is the area in which a war is taking place. If you're fascinated by war but don't have the nerve to be a soldier, why not make theatre about war? WORD FAMILYtheatre: theatres USAGE EXAMPLESThen he sneaked into the back of the theatre for the last twenty minutes. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) I first met Rosenberg at an international conference on indoor agriculture held at a theatre in Manhattan. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Christopher, who was born in Chicago, moved to New York to work as a theatre actor after college. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) 1n a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented Syn|Hypo|Hyper house, theater 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, theater 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 Syn|Hyper field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre of operations region a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth |
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