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sideshow

/sahyd-shoh/US // ˈsaɪdˌʃoʊ //UK // (ˈsaɪdˌʃəʊ) //

旁白,侧面展示,旁门左道,旁观者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a minor show or exhibition in connection with a principal one, as at a circus.
    • : any subordinate event or matter.

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Examples

  • Its resolution will determine whether the party has a chance of regaining power or whether it will be an increasingly irrelevant sideshow in a country dominated by the left.

  • There’s an overlay of international politics involved, with a sideshow storyline about the Justice Department allegedly approaching Gaetz’s father, a former Florida politician, about funding a mission to find an ex-FBI agent missing in Iran.

  • Right now, investors don’t want to see any noise or sideshows from Tesla and Musk.

  • Irving has been an unreliable co-star so far this season, alternating between fantastic scoring outbursts and confusing sideshows.

  • On the old web, designed to deliver hyper-targeted ads to unimaginably large audiences, creators have been a sideshow.

  • But drinking seems like a sideshow in these joints, not the main event.

  • The runoff has turned into a macabre political sideshow filled with grotesque attacks and ugly accusations.

  • The natural gas boom has become little more than a sideshow.

  • The trial of Morsi, now due to begin February 1, will be just a sideshow.

  • But the shutdown is something of a sideshow, provoked by impatient conservatives who wanted confrontation.

  • "Biting off live chickens' heads, in a sideshow wild-man act," Hideyoshi O'Leary supplied.

  • Hagen got a quick mental flash of a barker outside a circus sideshow: He walks like a man.

  • Unfortunately for posterity, Stieffel did not record his impressions of this little-known sideshow of the Civil War.

  • To make it take an hour he'd have to be ossified, wouldn't he, like the feller in the circus sideshow?

  • The sideshow got a dime of hers before the big show started and again after it ended.