sideshow

英 [ˈsaɪdʃəʊ]

美 [ˈsaɪdʃoʊ]

n.  (游园会或马戏中穿插的)小节目，杂耍; 次要活动; 附带事件

复数：sideshows　

GRE

BNC.22267 / COCA.16865

牛津词典

noun

• （游园会或马戏中穿插的）小节目，杂耍
  a separate small show or attraction at a fair or circus where you pay to see a performance or take part in a game
• 次要活动；附带事件
  an activity or event that is much less important than the main activity or event

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 次要活动;附带事件;附属活动
  Asideshowis a less important or less significant event or situation related to a larger, more important one that is happening at the same time.
  1. In the end, the meeting was a sideshow to a political storm that broke Thursday...
     最终，那次会议成了星期四爆发的政治风暴的一个附属事件。
  2. Radio work for him was very much a sideshow.
     对他来说电台的工作只是顺便做做而已。
• N-COUNT (马戏或游园会中穿插的)小节目，助兴表演,杂耍
  At a circus or fair, asideshowis a performance that you watch or a game of skill that you play, that is provided in addition to the main entertainment.
  1. Sideshows at the championship include highland dancing and a play by The Wanlockhead Players.
     锦标赛上的助兴节目包括高地舞蹈和万洛克黑德剧社上演的一部剧。

英英释义

noun

• a minor show that is part of a larger one (as at the circus)
• a subordinate incident of little importance relative to the main event
  1. instruction is not an educational sideshow

双语例句

• She travelled with the Ringling Brothers Circus and appeared at Coney Island's Dreamland sideshow.
  它随着林林兄弟马戏团来到“康尼岛的梦境之旅”进行杂技表演。
• The results, however, became something of a sideshow as running gun battles took over the heart of Congo's capital for the following two days.
  然而这一结果却似乎变成了接下来两天发生在刚果首都中心地带的枪战的附属事件。
• They were starting a sideshow called The Curious Citizens.
  他们正开始上演一场名为‘怪异人物’的杂耍戏。
• Radio work for him was very much a sideshow.
  对他来说电台的工作只是顺便做做而已。
• For their part, executives must stop approaching development as a philanthropic sideshow. Instead, they should acknowledge it as an entrepreneurial challenge where they can make a real difference.
  对于企业高管而言，他们不应再把发展视为慈善活动的作秀，而应该意识到发展是企业面临的一个挑战，他们可以在其中发挥切实的作用。
• An important sideshow is the attack on central banks 'low interest rate policies for depriving pensioners and other past savers of the fruits of their thrift.
  一个重要的插曲是，各国央行的低利率政策也遭到了抨击，这一政策被指是盗取了养老金领取者和以往其他储户辛苦节俭的成果。
• The case is a sideshow to the big challenge facing China to shift from being the low-wage producer of manufactured goods to a developed economy with a vibrant, open consumer market.
  中国目前面临的重大挑战是如何从一个低收入的商品制造国，转变为一个消费市场开放、有活力的发达经济体。
• Sideshows at the championship include highland dancing and a play by The Wanlockhead Players.
  锦标赛上的助兴节目包括高地舞蹈和万洛克黑德剧社上演的一部剧。
• The Design and Implement of Swinging Bell Device Based on the SideShow Techniques
  基于SideShow技术的摇摆钟设备的设计及实现
• The need to reform pay structures is not, as many have claimed, simply a politically convenient sideshow.
  改革薪酬结构的必要性并不像许多人所宣称的那样，只是一种处于政治需要的作秀。