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upstage

/uhp-steyj/US // ˈʌpˈsteɪdʒ //UK // (ˈʌpˈsteɪdʒ) //

上台,上场,上台阶,上演

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : on or toward the back of the stage.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or located at the back of the stage.
    • : haughtily aloof; supercilious.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    up·staged, up·stag·ing.

    • : to overshadow by moving upstage and forcing the performer to turn away from the audience.
    • : to outdo professionally, socially, etc.
    • : to behave snobbishly toward.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the rear half of the stage.
    • : any stage position to the rear of another.

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Examples

  • The rover will continue its journey around Jezero and is arguably being upstaged by its aerial buddy Ingenuity—a small helicopter that has now made 12 flights on Mars.

  • That visit came before his brother did the same, leading a Jordanian insider to tell Reuters Hamzah had upstaged the king.

  • So, Streep rewrote much of her dialogue, which led to tension with her co-star, Hoffman, who felt she was trying to upstage him.

  • Daily Pic (Venice Biennale Edition): Yuri Ancarani shows that medical magic can upstage the aesthetic kind.

  • It takes great talent to upstage a man accepting his party's presidential nomination.

  • In terms of attire, one did not upstage the other by looking more sophisticated or fashionable—or elitist, God forbid.

  • Upstage, burned a driftwood fire in a low hearth of rough bricks; Judge Tiffany sat there, in a spindle-backed chair, reading.

  • Few are native-born New Yorkers, and scarcely any of them go around with their noses in the air in an "upstage Eastern manner."

  • Single rose-coloured corduroy curtain for archway up R. hung on upstage side of arch.

  • One perceived, dimly, a high sombre draping, very far upstage.

  • A similar door, opening into the bedroom of the shack, upstage right.