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

• 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。
• Whether emerging economies decouple from the US in the current cycle is merely a sideshow if you look beyond the next 12 months.
  如果你将目光放在未来12个月以后，新兴经济体在本轮周期中是否与美国脱钩，不过是个小插曲。
• 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。
• Generally speaking, most investors have looked at these US-Sino cyber security issues if they're even paying attention as mainly a political sideshow for local Chinese consumption or, at worst, a mere rhetorical battle between the world's first-and second-largest economies.
  总体而言，大多数投资者把这些美中互联网安全问题如果他们关注这事的话看作主要是一场中国国内的政治游戏，最多也只是一场世界第一大和第二大经济体之间的嘴仗。
• You're a sideshow now.
  你现在不过是小人物了。
• In the poor countries themselves, agriculture has gone from being a sideshow for the government something the minister of agriculture does into its main event, which everyone needs to worry about.
  贫穷国家自身，农业也由农业部长幻灯片上的话题，转变成为政府的主要工作和人人需要担心的问题。
• 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。
• But in Switzerland, that debate seemed a sideshow, with most coming out in support of the broad strategy of the Obama administration to do both.
  但在瑞士，这种争论看上去是个次要问题，其中大多数争论结果，都是支持奥巴马政府两项举措同时采用的概括性策略。
• 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。