| 释义 |
on stage, on-stage, adv. (phr.) and a.
[f. on prep. + stage n.]
On the stage; that is appearing or occurring on a stage. Also transf. and fig.
1927T. S. Eliot in Newton's Seneca I. p. xi, It is not at all clear whether he [sc. Hercules] destroys his family on-stage or off. 1944New Yorker 24 June 32/1 Part of Duke's character goes well enough with the onstage Ellington who periodically throws back his head and emits a long-drawn-out ‘Ah-h-h!’ 1949Theatre Arts XXXIII. 100/3 She might not have taken to sitting dangerously close to the onstage edge of the wings. 1952, etc. [see off stage, off-stage adv. (phr.) and a.]. 1966D. F. Galouye Lost Perception v. 52 Radcliff strode on-stage, supervised a pair of attendants as they positioned the recording camera. 1975New Yorker 5 May 51/2 Everything that he did onstage was done with an excruciating and highly theatrical intensity. 1976Country Life 12 Feb. 346/2 The orchestra..are as well matched..as the on-stage cast. 1977Broadcast 7 Nov. 13/2 Dickens is very skilled at keeping mechanical dolls waiting in the wings, ready to be wound up and come on-stage. |
