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

• 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。
• Back again, eh, sir? Gosh. well, perhaps the break has sharpened the old aim. I still run my little sideshow here, so do drop in some time and try your luck.
  又回来啦，长官？啊，呃，也许上次的逃狱事件让警卫们磨练了他们的瞄准技术。我还是在这边玩玩我的小杂耍，改天有空过来试试手气吧。
• 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。
• But we weren't actually going to the beach. We,γ ere taken to a fenced section of reclaimed beach overlooking the real beach, with imported yellow sand and a sideshow carnival.
  但实际上我们不是去海滩，而是被带到一处用篱笆围起来，可以俯瞰真正海滩的人工开垦海滩，那里有遍布进口的黄沙和一个杂耍嘉年华。
• In comparison, the likely immediate effects of the US credit downgrade which may just accentuate trends of the past few weeks look like a mere sideshow.
  相比之下，美国信用评级遭下调可能产生的即刻效应仅仅会加剧过去几周已经显现的市场趋势看上去像不过是小事一桩。
• Regulators should remain focused on risk and capital bigness is a sideshow.
  监管者应继续关注风险与资本规模大小只是次要问题。
• Jankovic still had the edge in the early games of the second set, but sideshow tennis doesn't equate to grand slam success.
  扬科维奇仍然在第二盘开始几局存有优势，但是杂耍似的的网球不等同于大满贯上的成功。
• So, too, are politicians and regulators: stuck bickering in a Goldman sideshow.
  政治家和监管者的情况亦是如此：就让他们在这场高盛的助兴节目中继续争论下去吧。
• 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。
• This is turning into a sideshow.
  不然这会变成场闹剧。