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off-camera

/awf-kam-er-uh, -kam-ruh, of-/US // ˈɔfˈkæm ər ə, -ˈkæm rə, ˈɒf- //

镜头外,镜头之外,镜头外的,镜头以外

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : occurring as part of a film or program but outside the range of the motion-picture or television camera: the off-camera shouts of a mob.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : out of the range of a motion-picture or television camera: The star walked off-camera at the end of his monologue.
    • : in one's private rather than professional life: Off-camera the movie star liked to cook.

Examples

  • Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

  • A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

  • The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

  • The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.

  • Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.

  • A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

  • A leather cased camera was suspended from his bull neck by means of a strap.

  • He ran from the stamping mill, his camera bobbing from the strap around his neck and his tripod dragging behind him.

  • Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.

  • In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.