单词详解 | upstage

upstage
音标
英音/ ˌʌpˈsteɪdʒ / 美音/ ˌʌpˈsteɪdʒ /

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
During much of her reign she was often upstaged for attention by three flamboyant women – her popular mother, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, her younger sister Margaret and later Princess Diana.
在她统治的大部分时间里,她经常受到三位华丽女性的关注——她受欢迎的母亲伊丽莎白太后、她的妹妹玛格丽特和后来的戴安娜王妃。
Reuters

One critic noted that “when Maggie Smith is on the screen, the picture moves,” and Burton afterwards teasingly described her upstaging of him as “grand larceny.”
一位评论家指出,“当玛吉·史密斯出现在银幕上时,画面就会移动”,伯顿后来戏谑地称她抢了他的风头,这是“重大盗窃罪”。
BBC

Crowd favourite McIlroy was the star attraction in the leading group but Gotterup – in just his second competitive outing on a links course – upstaged the world number two and several other star names.
观众最喜爱的麦克罗伊是领先组中最具吸引力的明星,但戈特鲁普——这是他在林克斯球场上的第二次比赛——抢了世界排名第二和其他几位明星的风头。
BBC

基本释意
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抢……镜头;使相形见绌

同义词
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短释义
A child actor might accidentally upstage an adult simply by being adorable, or a minor character could upstage the star of a play with an amazing performance. When you upstage someone, the audience’s focus shifts from that person to you. Another way to use the verb upstage is to describe the acting technique of moving back on the stage, away from the audience, so that another actor must turn her back toward them.
抢风头就是抢风头。如果你试图抢了你的《油脂》搭档的风头,你就会试图将观众的注意力从他身上转移到舞台后面做侧手翻的你身上。

长释义
A child actor might accidentally upstage an adult simply by being adorable, or a minor character could upstage the star of a play with an amazing performance. When you upstage someone, the audience’s focus shifts from that person to you. Another way to use the verb upstage is to describe the acting technique of moving back on the stage, away from the audience, so that another actor must turn her back toward them.
儿童演员可能会因为可爱而意外地抢了成年人的风头,或者小角色可能会凭借精彩的表演抢了戏剧明星的风头。当你抢了某人的风头时,观众的注意力就会从那个人转移到你身上。使用动词“upstage”的另一种方式是描述退到舞台上、远离观众的表演技巧,这样另一个演员就必须背对着他们。

文学例句
As soon as the letter was read, she upstaged her runaway brothers with her own dramatic exit.
信一读完,她就用自己戏剧性的退出抢了逃跑的兄弟们的风头。
Atonement by Ian McEwan

As the most famous, and controversial, woman in America, she did not want to draw attention to herself and upstage Marian Anderson.
作为美国最著名、最具争议性的女性,她不想引起人们对自己的关注并抢了玛丽安·安德森的风头。
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman

Then, more gracefully than ever Freddie Rooke had managed to move downstage under the tuition of Johnson Miller, he moved upstage to the exit.
然后,在约翰逊·米勒的指导下,弗雷迪·鲁克比以往任何时候都更优雅地走到台下,走到台后出口处。
The Little Warrior by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

词源
upstage(adv.)1855 in theatrical jargon, “to the rear of the stage,” from up (adv.) + stage (n.). From 1901 as an adjective, 1916 as a noun. The notion in the verb (1921) is of drawing attention to oneself (and away from a fellow actor) by moving upstage, so that the other actor must face away from the audience. Related: Upstaged; upstaging.also from 1855

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
upstage(adv.)1855,用戏剧术语来说,“到舞台的后面”,来自 up (adv.) + stage (n.)。从1901年起作为形容词,1916年起作为名词。 《动词》(1921)中的概念是通过移到舞台后面来吸引自己的注意力(并远离其他演员),以便其他演员必须背对观众。相关:抢风头;抢风头.同样来自 1855


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