sidelight
侧光,侧重点,侧面光线,旁白
Definitions
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- : an item of incidental information.
- : either of two lights carried by a vessel under way at night, a red one on the port side and a green on the starboard.
- : light coming from the side.
- : a window or other aperture for light in the side of a building, ship, etc.
- : a window at the side of a door or another window.
Examples
A sidelight to the historic effort was the marathon reporting conducted by Mudd.
A callous and utterly botched effort, but even if just a sidelight to this execution, it fits the execution like a favorite glove.
As a(nother) sidelight, it's clear that Romney or whoever wrote this piece doesn't actually understand what culture even is.
He tells me to carry on and, in doing so, throws an amusing sidelight upon himself.
Nothing was wrong but the loss of one sidelight, and the car went better than before.
An interesting sidelight on the affair was received a few days later.
Morgan had never been so interesting as now that he himself was made plainer by the sidelight of these confidences.
A glow-worm burned stilly, lighting up the whole leaf as a ship's sidelight lights up its painted box.