1. They're much too upstage for us these days. 他们近来对我们太势利了。
2. He knows when to move upstage, when to modulate his voice, and when to throw away a line. 他懂得什么时候该移向舞台后方,什么时候该调整声调,以及什么时候该轻轻带过一句台词。
3. Whenever a new system that tried to upstage UNIX came along, somebody would dissect the newcomer and clone its central ideas into UNIX. 无论什么时候出现一个新的系统想要抢过Unix的风头,总会有人将其剖析,并将它的中心思想克隆到Unix中。
英英解释
n.
1. the rear part of the stage
2. treat snobbishly, put in one's place
3. move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience
4. steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else adj.
1. of the back half of a stage
2. remote in manner adv.
1. at or toward the rear of the stage