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offstage

/awf-steyj, of-/US // ˈɔfˈsteɪdʒ, ˈɒf- //UK // (ˈɒfˈsteɪdʒ) //

台下,台下的,台下的人,舞台下

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : off the stage or in the wings; away from the view of the audience.
    • : in one's private life rather than on the stage: Offstage the actress seemed rather plain.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not in view of the audience; backstage, in the wings, etc.: an offstage crash.
    • : withheld from public view or attention; private: offstage political meetings.

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Examples

  • Miranda had stayed offstage when he put together his campus production of In the Heights at Wesleyan, but in 2002, Kail suggested he might as well play supporting character Usnavi.

  • I look in the wings offstage, and Rip Taylor is laughing his ass off.

  • Ethiopia Habtemariam, the president of Motown Records, has spent the past year assisting her artists in navigating the painful reality of life offstage while retooling album-release plans.

  • The president who likes to put on a show is mostly offstage these days.

  • He needed his art because, offstage, the chaos was sometimes too much.

  • All these folks were full of gripping stories about their time with Pryor, since he created much drama offstage as well as on.

  • And they never break character, even offstage—at least in front of the press.

  • The agents of their slide were many, and they operated offstage.

  • Just offstage, however, stands a nation of unemployed, abandoned and desperate people.

  • He used even Johnny Simms as an offstage voice repeating stern commands.

  • And even if he found them, who would believe an actor offstage, delivering such improbable lines?

  • When Ophelia perishes offstage you don't think of post-mortem lividity or foam on the mouth.

  • "—caught red-handed with the incriminating papers," shouted an offstage announcer.