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spotlight

美音:[´spɔt´laıt ]点这儿播放单词美音发声
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n.聚光灯

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spotlight为短语/超纲词汇

词形变化:

动词过去式:spotlighted/spotlit 过去分词:spotlighted/spotlit 现在分词:spotlighting 第三人称单数:spotlights

spotlight


/'spɒtlaɪt; `spɑt,laɪt/
n
1 (also spot) [C] (lamp used for sending a) strong beam of light directed onto a particular place or person, eg on the stage of a theatre 聚光灯(的光)(如舞台上的). =>illus at App
1 见附录1插图, page ix.
2 the spotlight [sing] (fig 比喻) full attention or publicity 大家的注意
*a sportsman who likes to be in the spotlight 爱出风头的运动员
* This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion. 本周引人瞩目的是时装界.

v (pt, pp spotlit / -lIt; -9lIt/ or, esp in sense 2, spotlighted 亦作spotlighted, 尤用于下述第2义) [Tn]
1 direct a spotlight onto (sb/sth) 将聚光灯射向(某人[某物])
*a spotlit stage 有聚光照明的舞台.
2 (fig 比喻) draw attention to (sth); make conspicuous or obvious 使注意(某事物); 使突出或显眼
*The report has spotlighted real deprivation in the inner cities. 这篇报道披露了旧城区的贫困真相.
1. She is tired of being in the spotlight.
    她厌倦到处抛头露面。

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