upstage

1 On the other, there’s something about the way that the editing keeps time with the music, the way the talking is enhancing what’s onstage rather than upstaging it.

2 Not that anyone could upstage the fabulously styled singer, in her vintage dress and blond kiss curl, which appears to have been sculpted from ice cream.

3 Sir Simon appeared at the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, when he and the London Symphony Orchestra were upstaged by Mr Bean while playing Chariots of Fire.

4 Plainly dressed and usually off to the side, seated with the musicians, he isn’t trying to upstage anyone with his wry, unadorned performance.

5 It works — and anyway, there’s no upstaging the acting.

6 The satisfaction is something that doesn't really extend to Show, the Cure's latest film and live album, which was intended to upstage the lethargic Cure in Orange, but in effect is almost indistinguishable from it.

7 The Spice musical – is Assange's most outrageous mission yet to upstage Posh and Ginger?

8 Position a camera upstage...

在舞台后面安置一部摄影机。

9 Such examples include the Anna tiger moth, whose handsome markings, more of the giraffe than the tiger, are upstaged by creamy yellow patches below.

10 An impressive if unoriginal monster is upstaged by – spoiler alert! – a cuddly toy dog with fireworks attached.

11 “This is a beautiful building that does not compromise its contemporary convictions or upstage the treasure inside,” the critic Ada Louise Huxtable wrote shortly after its opening.

12 Allied might be upstaged by the gossip, and become best known for something other than itself.

13 While her upper half performed, her bottom half upstaged her.

14 Angelica Borrero’s apartment set is also excellent; bonus points for the clever way she incorporates Rattlestick’s upstage proscenium into the structure of the family’s home.

15 Feeling upstaged, Annie promptly grabs the mic and thanks the bride for choosing her as the maid of honor: “I know you had some other choices.”

16 In “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” there is one scene where Mister Rogers’s piano playing is upstaged.

17 In profile, my nose jutted way past my chin and upstaged the rest of my features.

18 It’s a rare concert when a major work of Beethoven gets upstaged.

19 The next day the tabloids went crazy with the headline “Mystery blonde upstages Diana” and camped outside her house for a couple of weeks after bribing a dastardly Etonian to reveal her identity.

20 At the start, three dancers stand upstage, their outlines traced in shadow on the back wall.

1 势利

toffee-nosed uppity stuck-up hoity-toity snob give oneself airs

2 高傲的

high grand proud lofty high-pitched lordly bumptious uppish toplofty high-spirited supercilious

3 舞台后部

backstage

4 后台

greenroom tiring room backstage off-stage postscenium coulisse

5 在舞台后部

backstage

6 高傲

high grand proud lofty high-pitched lordly bumptious uppish toplofty proudly disdainfully imperiously loftily superciliously swank haughtiness loftiness hauteur superciliousness lordliness disdainfulness high-spirited supercilious pride of place

7 狂妄自大的

vainglorious

8 冷落

brush snub disfavor freeze off

9 向舞台后部

up

10 傲慢的

cock-a-hoop huffish self-asserting fastuous big grand proud superior wise stiff imperial elevated topping assuming cavalier sublime arrogant masterful dismissive overbearing feisty surly blasphemous presumptuous patronizing magisterial imperious bitchy snotty insolent snooty high-minded seagoing uppity domineering immodest high-stepping impertinent huffy supercilious overweening assumptive hoity-toity bumptious sniffy contumelious bardy snuffy high-hat high-blown dicty bounceable toplofty biggety porky high bloated defiant pompous perky haughty dictatorial disdainful bratty lordly snippy stuck-up cavalierly stiff-backed uppish orgulous misproud bold chesty stiff-necked facety proud-hearted above oneself smart cocky vainglorious blustering highfalutin surquedous lofty potty consequential breezy self-sufficient brash boastful scornful presuming lippy standoffish vapouring snifty highty-tighty sidy proud hearted

11 傲慢地对待

ritz

12 狂妄自大

vainglorious side swagger hubris impertinence

13 目空一切

supercilious snuffy be on high horse full of oneself with nose in the air

14 傲慢

cock-a-hoop huffish self-asserting fastuous big grand proud superior wise stiff imperial elevated topping assuming cavalier sublime arrogant masterful dismissive overbearing feisty surly blasphemous presumptuous patronizing magisterial imperious bitchy snotty insolent snooty high-minded seagoing uppity domineering immodest high-stepping impertinent huffy supercilious overweening assumptive hoity-toity bumptious sniffy contumelious bardy snuffy high-hat high-blown dicty bounceable toplofty biggety lordly bigly side blow importance pride assumption presumption arrogance hubris morgue insolence porky braggadocio hauteur tympany snash insult swagger huff overween perk it crow head off high bloated defiant pompous perky haughty dictatorial disdainful bratty snippy stuck-up cavalierly stiff-backed uppish orgulous misproud proudly haughtily insolently perkily bumptiously snootiness bumptiousness superbity hold head high smart cocky vainglorious blustering highfalutin sauce stomach gall assume with nose in the air proud stomach on the high ropes surquedous lofty potty consequential breezy self-sufficient brash boastful scornful presuming lippy stiff-necked standoffish vapouring snifty highty-tighty sidy swaggeringly surquedry surquidry pursiness puppy superiority hardiness mickey irreverence pomposity impertinence hardihood sweeny de proud hearted

15 目空一切的

supercilious snuffy with nose in the air

16 傲慢地

surly lordly bigly superior

17 冷漠的

dead bleak repulsive inward-looking unemotional stand-offish meh

18 势利的

uppity stuck-up hoity-toity snob

19 架子十足的

overbearing

20 相形见绌

pale put in the shade