upstaging

英 [ˌʌpˈsteɪdʒɪŋ]

美 [ˌʌpˈsteɪdʒɪŋ]

v.  抢…的镜头; 把对…的注意吸引过来
upstage的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• ADV 在舞台后部；朝舞台后面
  When an actor isupstageor movesupstage, he or she is or moves towards the back part of the stage.
  1. Upstage and right of centre, Robert Morris stands with his back to the audience...
     舞台后方偏右处，罗伯特·莫里斯背对观众站着。
  2. Position a camera upstage...
     在舞台后面安置一部摄影机。
  3. They slowly moved from upstage left into the centre.
     他们慢慢地从舞台后方的左侧移至正中。
  4. Upstageis also an adjective.
     
  5. ...the large upstage box that Noble used for his 1990 production of King Lear.
     诺布尔在1990制作《李尔王》时使用过的大型舞台背景箱子
• VERB 使相形见绌；抢…的风头
  If someoneupstagesyou, they draw attention away from you by being more attractive or interesting.
  1. He had a younger brother who always publicly upstaged him...
     他有一个弟弟，总是公然抢他的风头。
  2. He upstages her by flirting with other women.
     他与其他女人调情，故意怠慢她。

双语例句

• But beside the market for full-time, permanent jobs, a new one characterised by flexibility and low costs has emerged and is fast upstaging the former.
  然而，除了全职永久工作市场，还有一个以灵活性和低成本为特点的新市场正在兴起，并迅速超越全职永久市场。
• Such was rapper Kanye West's explanation for his bizarre upstaging of country singer Taylor Swift after she won Best Female Video at September's MTV Video Music Awards.
  事件是这样的，2009年乡村歌手泰勒·斯威夫特获得美国全国MTV年度最佳女歌手。
• PPV, sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, diagnostic upstaging, and treatment management changes were determined from subset analysis of123 previously untreated patients with HN cancer.
  阳性预测值、敏感性、特异性和精确度、肿瘤诊断分期和治疗处理变化由123例未经治疗的头颈部肿瘤患者子集分析来决定。
• Upstaging your boss can limit your career mobility. Therefore, be careful of correcting your boss in public, as someone did to my father once.
  抢老板的风头会让你的职业受到很大限制所以，在公众场合纠正老板错误一定要小心。