英:[ˈtru:pə(r)]
美:[ˈtrupɚ]
英:[ˈtru:pə(r)]
美:[ˈtrupɚ]
复数:troupers
1890年,"剧团中的演员或表演者",源自 troupe(n.)+ -er(1)。1942年,美国英语出现了"可靠、不抱怨的人"的引申义。
The first known use of trouper was in 1890
1 Once they commit, Graham and Chin are a pair of troupers.
2 Brooke Elliott was a stage trouper, performing in the national tours of musicals such as "Wicked" and "Beauty and the Beast."
3 Merce was a trouper who, despite his age and the crumbling bones that put him in a wheelchair, never stopped working.
4 At 66, Miss Ross is a trouper, with a voice so engraved in American pop memory that all she has to do is approximate her old performances to set fans joyfully singing along.
5 You start to understand how barnstorming troupers of previous centuries could tour in Shakespeare in their twilight years without courting derision.
6 The revue is a concise, well-organized showcase of mostly familiar material whose streetwise sophistication matches the sensibilities of these veteran troupers.
7 "There's got to be an easier way to get a standing ovation," said Mr. Douglas, who spoke little but sounded good, and stood out as the kind of trouper Hollywood and its fans both love.
“有一个让全场起立鼓掌的更简单的方法,”道格拉斯先生说道,他的话语不多,但听起来有力,他以同时令老练的好莱坞及其粉丝都喜欢的方式亮相。
8 My wife’s a trouper for going through all that.
9 In recent years, this valiant show business trouper has been plagued by a succession of accidents and illnesses.
10 A trouper has it written in her DNA that the show must go on.
11 The self-portrait that emerges is that of the dedicated trouper, a showbiz workhorse who went on the road with “My One and Only” and ended up playing more than a thousand performances.
12 It was a trouper’s lute, its long, graceful neck and round bowl were painfully familiar.
13 “My name is Kvothe, I am a trouper and one of the Edema Ruh. Never on my most desperate day would I lie to a tinker.”
14 A trouper treats every setback as an opportunity.
15 Yet the Jacksons were more troupers than mourners.
16 Still, Gebbia has been a trouper through all his injury trials.
17 He has proved himself a trouper and deserves all the hip hip hoorays coming his way.
18 Ms. Paige’s once pristine, Sarah Brightman-like soprano may have coarsened and frayed, but in “Memory,” “Cry Me a River” and “As if We Never Said Goodbye,” she still belted like a trouper.
19 “When I was babysitting in undergrad, one day I heard myself telling the kid I was babysitting, ‘You’re such a trouper!’
20 Though Holly was being a trouper with just her mom in South Africa for her nuptials, the soon-to-be sister-in-law was considerate of Holly’s underlying emotions.
1 主心骨
2 可靠的人
3 演员
histrionical histrionic turn player cast performer thespian stager personator stage player play actor
5 团员