dress rehearsal

英 [ˌdres rɪˈhɜːsl]

美 [ˌdres rɪˈhɜːrsl]

n.  彩排

牛津词典

noun

• 彩排
  the final practice of a play in the theatre, using the clothes and lights that will be used for the real performance
  1. The earlier protests had just been dress rehearsals for full-scale revolution.
     早期的抗议仅仅是大革命开始前的预演。

柯林斯词典

• (正式演出前的最后)彩排
  Thedress rehearsalof a play, opera, or show is the final rehearsal before it is performed, in which the performers wear their costumes and the lights and scenery are all used as they will be in the performance.
• N-COUNT (事件的)预演,彩排
  You can describe an event as adress rehearsalfor a later, more important event when it indicates how the later event will be.
  1. These elections, you could almost say, are a dress rehearsal for the real elections.
     你几乎可以说,这些选举是真正选举前的一次彩排。

英英释义

noun

• a full uninterrupted rehearsal in costumes shortly before the first performance

双语例句

• Life on earth is just the dress rehearsal before the real production.
  人生在世，其实只是彩排，为未来公演之日作准备。
• The audience behaved indecorously as if the concert were an informal dress rehearsal.
  这些观众举止随便，仿佛这场音乐会是一场非正式的彩排。
• Many people live as if life were a dress rehearsal for some later date.
  许多人沉迷于对未来的幻想中。现在的生活，对他们而言，就像是未来生活的彩排。
• All of us were invited to sit in on the dress rehearsal.
  我们被一起请去观看彩排。
• The Asian fund management industry has faced many bouts of extreme volatility in the past and indeed survived a dress rehearsal of the current global banking and credit crisis in the late 1990s.
  过去，亚洲基金管理业面临过许多轮极度动荡，并渡过了当前这场全球银行业和信贷危机在上世纪90年代末的一次彩排。
• I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.
  我学会了爱的旅程，而不是终点。我知道这不是一次彩排，今天是你唯一能把握的。
• No dress rehearsal, no duplicate.
  没有彩排，没有重复。
• I have to dress rehearsal in these few days.
  这几天我必须要彩排了。
• Without seeing with my own eyes of the grand performance at the opening ceremony, brilliant fireworks during the dress rehearsal have fascinated me with joy.
  虽然还没有亲眼目睹开幕式的盛大演出，但彩排时的绚丽烟花已足以令我万分憧憬。
• The famine in Ethiopia in the80's was just a tiny dress rehearsal. A few trucks of rice won't cut it next time.
  上世纪80年代埃塞俄比亚的饥荒只不过是一场小小的彩排。下一次，几卡车米就不会再够吃了。