| 单词 | sideshow |
| 释义 | Related topics: Leisureside·show /ˈsaɪdʃəʊ $ -ʃoʊ/ noun [countable] 1. DLa separate small part of a fair or circus, where you pay to play games or watch a performance 〔游乐场或马戏团的〕穿插表演，助兴节目2 UNIMPORTANTan event that is much less important or serious than another one 次要事件，附带活动 The initial conflict was a mere sideshow compared with the World War that followed. 最初的冲突同随后发生的世界大战相比，只是次要事件。Examples from the Corpussideshow• There is even a sideshow where a large gilt stupa rotates on an electric motor.• In a way, the presidential race is a sideshow to the real struggle for power in Washington.• He told me back then that the open space bond was a sideshow.• No longer can Labor and the Likud be seen as the only parties that matter, and the rest as sideshows.• They were heavily barred and on wheels, somewhere between a luggage trolley and a circus sideshow.• And the struggle is more than a mere sideshow on the right.• We saw a movie by Herzog that concluded with a chicken in a Midwest sideshow that played tic-tac-toe.• To be sure, even the great Constitutional Convention had its own sideshows.side·show nounChineseSyllable small Corpus a of part a fair or separate |
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