upstage

英 [ˌʌpˈsteɪdʒ]

美 [ˌʌpˈsteɪdʒ]

adv./adj.  在(或向)舞台后部
v.  抢…的镜头; 把对…的注意吸引过来

过去分词：upstaged　过去式：upstaged　现在分词：upstaging　第三人称单数：upstages　

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.19146 / COCA.20083

牛津词典

adv.

adj.

• 在（或向）舞台后部
  at or towards the back of the stage in a theatre

verb

• 抢…的镜头；把对…的注意吸引过来
  to say or do sth that makes people notice you more than the person that they should be interested in
  1. She was furious at being upstaged by her younger sister.
     她被妹妹抢去风头，感到气愤不已。

柯林斯词典

• ADV 在舞台后部；朝舞台后面
  When an actor isupstageor movesupstage, he or she is or moves towards the back part of the stage.
  1. Upstage and right of centre, Robert Morris stands with his back to the audience...
     舞台后方偏右处，罗伯特·莫里斯背对观众站着。
  2. Position a camera upstage...
     在舞台后面安置一部摄影机。
  3. They slowly moved from upstage left into the centre.
     他们慢慢地从舞台后方的左侧移至正中。
  4. Upstageis also an adjective.
     
  5. ...the large upstage box that Noble used for his 1990 production of King Lear.
     诺布尔在1990制作《李尔王》时使用过的大型舞台背景箱子
• VERB 使相形见绌；抢…的风头
  If someoneupstagesyou, they draw attention away from you by being more attractive or interesting.
  1. He had a younger brother who always publicly upstaged him...
     他有一个弟弟，总是公然抢他的风头。
  2. He upstages her by flirting with other women.
     他与其他女人调情，故意怠慢她。

英英释义

noun

• the rear part of the stage

verb

• steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else
  1. When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the actress
• move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience
• treat snobbishly, put in one's place

adj

• remote in manner
  1. stood apart with aloof dignity
  2. a distant smile
  3. he was upstage with strangers
  Synonym:aloofdistant
• of the back half of a stage
  1. she crossed to the upstage chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the audience

adv

• at or toward the rear of the stage
  1. the dancers were directed to move upstage

双语例句

• The upstage user module mainly make up of a client and a web page dibble seeding based on the browser two parts.
  前台用户模块主要由客户端和基于浏览器的页面点播两部分组成。
• He avoided newsmen's microphones and went out of his way not to upstage his superior.
  他避开新闻记者们的麦克风，尽量不抢上司的镜头。
• Position a camera upstage
  在舞台后面安置一部摄影机。
• MRI may upstage T classification, tends to upstage clinical classification, and has no influence on N classification of NPC.
  MRI使鼻咽癌的T分期升级，对临床分期有升级的趋势，而对N分期则无影响。
• Upstage and right of centre, Robert Morris stands with his back to the audience
  舞台后方偏右处，罗伯特·莫里斯背对观众站着。
• This papar presents preliminary assessment about spin stabilization of satellite-launcher upstage and analyses the influence of the interference factors.
  本文讨论卫星运载火箭末级自旋稳定问题，分析了干扰因素的影响。
• He had a younger brother who always publicly upstaged him
  他有一个弟弟，总是公然抢他的风头。
• He seems to be attempting to upstage the prime minister.
  他似乎正试图使自己比首相更突出。
• I have no idea what happened there, Swift told Rolling Stone. I think that story was based on the biggest misunderstanding, cause I would never knowingly show up somewhere that I thought I wasnt invited to. And I would never want to upstage anybody.
  斯威夫特告诉《滚石》我认为这件事是基于一个很大的误会，因为我从来不会故意的出现在没有邀请我的地方，而且我从来都不想抢谁的风头。
• A vice president who repeatedly tried to upstage the president.
  屡次欲抢总统镜头的副总统。