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curtain-raiser

拉开序幕,拉开帷幕,谢幕演出,拉开序幕的人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a short play preceding a main play.
    • : any preliminary event or performance.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • After the curtain calls, Christopher comes back to explain a complicated math problem.

  • They keep their heads low while running behind a large curtain covering the opening between two housing blocks.

  • For anyone who cared to watch, the event and its denouement provided a graphic demonstration that the Iron Curtain was crumbling.

  • The last time a Pope addressed the parliament in Strasbourg was in 1988 when an Iron Curtain still divided the continent.

  • The insurrectionists seemed actors in a surreal episode of revolutionary play-acting in which the curtain was about to fall.

  • She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.

  • I seized the opportunity to watch what I supposed would be a most interesting interview, from behind a curtain.

  • She thrust a bare, white arm from the curtain which shielded her open door, and received the cup from his hands.

  • We haven't even seen a review of the piece; the footlights go up with a jump, and now the curtain rises.

  • The overture is over, the curtain is about to rise on the drama of Georgie's married life.