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dramatis personae

/dram-uh-tis per-soh-nee, drah-muh-/US // ˈdræm ə tɪs pərˈsoʊ ni, ˈdrɑ mə- //

演员阵容,剧中人,演员表,剧中人物

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the characters in a play.
    • : a list of the characters preceding the text of a play.

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Examples

  • It’s raining menAnd now, one after another, new dramatis personae, mostly ghosts, keep entering stage left, complicating what once seemed our simple soliloquy.

  • But a story this big, this consequential, needs a dramatis personae of dramatic people.

  • But today, their worth has almost nothing to do with their printed personae.

  • The book is structured with short chapters, turning the eye of the narrator between these 20 dramatis personae.

  • Glover seems to be combining his personae, and the response has been positive.

  • But his personae kept evolving, infuriating listeners who wanted him to be the model from three years earlier.

  • The dramatis person were known to the public, but the part assigned to each was kept profoundly secret.

  • Julian Peveril, amongst others of the dramatis person, had arrived, and taken up his abode in a remote inn in the suburbs.

  • Of course this always put to flight the dramatis personæ of my study.

  • The dramatis personæ were known to the public, but the part assigned to each was kept profoundly secret.

  • They also, not altogether abandoning classical allusions, changed the name of their dramatis personae.