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on-screen

/on-skreen, awn-/US // ˈɒnˈskrin, ˈɔn- //

在屏幕上,屏幕上的,屏幕上,在屏幕上的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : occurring within a motion picture or television show or in an actor's professional life: a raucous on-screen personality that was at odds with his quiet private life.
    • : displayed on a television screen; supplied by means of television: an on-screen course in economics.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a motion picture or television program or in one's professional life: On-screen he's a villain.

Examples

  • Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.

  • It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.

  • Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?

  • Among the Perpendicular additions to the church last named may be noted a very beautiful oaken rood-screen.

  • The fire had been heaped over with earth—to screen it from prying eyes, I suppose, while the good work went on.

  • Now, he chose a small table in a corner of the balcony, close to the glass screen.

  • I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.

  • According to a weekly paper not only is Constance Binney a famous screen star, but she is also a first-class ukelele player.