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show-stopper

/shoh-stop-er/US // ˈʃoʊˌstɒp ər //

表演者,节目主持人,阻止者,节目预告

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
    • : a spectacularly arresting or appealing person or thing: This bright plaid suit is a real show-stopper.

Examples

  • Policemen on the show joke about prison riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians.

  • As soon as this attack [happened], Paris citizens came together to show were are not afraid, we are Charlie Hebdo.

  • And they might not have to wait that long to show their political heft.

  • Not actual CIA agents, but U.S. government personnel who have worked very closely with the CIA, and who are fans of the show.

  • Earlier this week, Huckabee ended his Fox News talk show so he could spend time mulling another bid for the Republican nomination.

  • None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.

  • I shall show how it is possible thus to prolong life to the term set by God.

  • Not only do children thus of themselves extend the scope of our commands, they show a disposition to make rules for themselves.

  • He called upon the Order to show their title-deeds, but was met with a contemptuous refusal.

  • If any one has lost his temper, as well as his money, he takes good care not to show it; to do so here would be indeed bad form.

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