Stage
[steɪdʒ] or [stedʒ]
解释:
(noun.) a section or portion of a journey or course; 'then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise'.
(noun.) a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; 'he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box'.
(noun.) a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination.
(noun.) the theater as a profession (usually `the stage'); 'an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage'.
(noun.) any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; 'All the world's a stage'--Shakespeare; 'it set the stage for peaceful negotiations'.
(verb.) plan, organize, and carry out (an event); 'the neighboring tribe staged an invasion'.
(verb.) perform (a play), especially on a stage; 'we are going to stage `Othello''.
校对:马特--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A floor or story of a house.
(n.) An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
(n.) A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.
(n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
(n.) The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.
(n.) A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs.
(n.) The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
(n.) A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
(n.) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road; as, a stage of ten miles.
(n.) A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result.
(n.) A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.
(n.) One of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage.
(v. t.) To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.
戴夫校对
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Platform, scaffold, STAGING.[2]. Theatre, play-house.[3]. Step, degree.
整理:诺里斯
解释:
n. an elevated platform esp. in a theatre: the theatre: theatrical representations the theatrical calling: any place of exhibition or performance: a place of rest on a journey or road: distance between places: degree of progress.—v.t. to represent or place for representation on the stage.—ns. Stage′-coach a coach that runs regularly with passengers from stage to stage; Stage′-craft skill in putting a play on the stage; Stage′-door the actors' entrance to a theatre; Stage′-driv′er one who drives a stage; Stage′-effect′ theatrical effect; Stage′-fē′ver a passion to go on the stage; Stage′-fright nervousness before an audience esp. for the first time; Stage′-man′ager one who superintends the production of plays and has general charge of everything behind the curtain; Stage′-play a play for representation on a stage; Stage′-play′er a player on the stage; Stā′ger a stage-horse: one who has had much experience in anything.—adj. Stage′-struck sorely smitten with stage-fever.—ns. Stage′-wag′on a wagon for conveying goods and passengers at fixed times; Stage′-whis′per a loud whisper as that of an actor meant to be heard by the audience.—adjs. Stā′gey Stā′gy suggesting the stage theatrical.—ns. Stā′giness; Stā′ging a structure for workmen in building.
格思里整理
例句:
- Any open reference to the question, on my part, would have been premature at this early stage of our reconciliation. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- After all, I have played my part to the best of my ability on this life's stage, but Fate has been too strong for me. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- We say in our argument that a return to the days of the stage-coach is impossible or that you cannot turn back the hands of the clock. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Is appealed to, at the fish stage of the banquet, by Veneering, on the disputed question whether his cousin Lord Snigsworth is in or out of town? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Davoust and Massena, who wrought in many a battle tragedy, are here, and so also is Rachel, of equal renown in mimic tragedy on the stage. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Edison himself began at that point, and his note-books show that he made various experiments with this type of lamp at a very early stage. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- This second comfort came on the stage in the course of the evening. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Even in 1847 few of these things had lost their novelty, most of them were in the earlier stages of development. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I will assume that we possess (what we have certainly not got) money enough to carry this inquiry on through all its stages. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- At last he began to pay me in halfpence at a time; and was full two hours getting by easy stages to a shilling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The production of coal gas, and the development of its properties at different stages of distillation, may be readily shown by means of a common tobacco pipe. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Sometimes it is only the earlier developmental stages which fail. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The individual develops, but his proper development consists in repeating in orderly stages the past evolution of animal life and human history. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Through all his stages, Mr. Jaggers followed him with the same strange interest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- When all was completed the great staging was removed, and the mighty tube rested alone and secure upon its massive wedge-faced piers rising from the bedrock of the flood below. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The silent drama, however, calls also for many representations which employ conventional acting, staging, and the varied appliances of stagecraft. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
校对:克劳斯