sideshow

英 ['saɪdʃəʊ] 美 ['saɪdʃo]
  • n. 穿插表演；串演的节；小事件
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英语词源

sideshow (n.)
also side-show, 1855, "minor exhibition alongside or near a principal one," apparently a coinage of P.T. Barnum's, from side (adj.) + show (n.). Hence, any diversion or distracting event.

权威例句

1. Radio work for him was very much a sideshow.
对他来说电台的工作只是顺便做做而已。

来自柯林斯例句

2. In the end, the meeting was a sideshow to a political storm that broke Thursday.
最终，那次会议成了星期四爆发的政治风暴的一个附属事件。

来自柯林斯例句

3. Did you think you could shock me by treating me to this sideshow?
你认为用这种杂耍表演就能吓倒我 吗 ?

来自电影对白

4. The Arsenal contingent will provide an intriguing sideshow in Lisbon.
阿森纳球员将会在里斯本上演有趣的一幕.

来自互联网

5. Suddenly, everything we so carefully planned has been turned into a sideshow.
突然间, 我们小心谨慎计划的一切,反而变成次要的过场戏了.

来自互联网

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