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the footlights

/foot-lahyt/US // ˈfʊtˌlaɪt //

脚灯,脚步声,脚下的灯,脚踏车

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Usually footlights. Theater. the lights at the front of a stage that are nearly on a level with the feet of the performers.
    • : the footlights, the stage; acting profession.

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Examples

  • There's far more heroism in the attitude of men out here than in the footlight attitude that journalists paint for the public.

  • Footlight paralysis is one of the most terrifying of all acute diseases and there is no cure for it but experience.

  • Jefferson had really fallen asleep, and his snores, it is said, were quite audible beyond the footlight.

  • No living creature excites such general curiosity, interest, and perhaps admiration and envy, as this footlight queen.

  • To use the torch or hand lantern, a footlight must be used as a point of reference to the motion.