词族 · sideshow
词形变化
英语词源
- sideshow (n.)
- also side-show, 1855, "minor exhibition alongside or near a principal one," apparently a coinage of P.T. Barnum's, from side (adj.) + show (n.). Hence, any diversion or distracting event.
权威例句
- 1. Radio work for him was very much a sideshow.
- 对他来说电台的工作只是顺便做做而已。
- 2. In the end, the meeting was a sideshow to a political storm that broke Thursday.
- 最终，那次会议成了星期四爆发的政治风暴的一个附属事件。
- 3. Did you think you could shock me by treating me to this sideshow?
- 你认为用这种杂耍表演就能吓倒我 吗 ?
- 4. The Arsenal contingent will provide an intriguing sideshow in Lisbon.
- 阿森纳球员将会在里斯本上演有趣的一幕.
- 5. Suddenly, everything we so carefully planned has been turned into a sideshow.
- 突然间, 我们小心谨慎计划的一切,反而变成次要的过场戏了.