- 1（舞台）背景幕；（引申）背景、時代背景
A backdrop, in the most literal sense, is a large painted cloth or screen hung behind actors on a stage or in front of a camera, showing a scene like a forest or a city , so the audience believes the actors are really there. From that stage meaning, the word grew into a much more common, everyday use: the 'backdrop' to an event or story is the situation and setting surrounding it — the background conditions that help explain why something happened. A news report might say a strike happened 'against a backdrop of rising prices,' meaning that rising prices were part of the surrounding situation.
From the word’s history
From back + drop.
由 back 加上 drop 組成。
組成back + drop (a hanging curtain)
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
backdropnoun/ˈbæk.dɹɒp/
- 1
A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
- 2
An image that serves as a visual background.
- The president spoke outside the brick exterior of the firehouse for Ladder Company 10 and Engine Company 10, against the backdrop of a 56-foot-long bronze bas-relief depicting the towers in flames.
- Animated, seemingly varied crowd movement will place a game in the early 1990s, while static crowd backdrops and blocky, sprite-based athletes tend to point toward technology used in the 1980s.
- 3
The setting or background of an acted performance.
- Blackpool’s aggregate victory ensures Birmingham are now preparing for a potential summer of change. Manager Chris Hughton has been operating against a backdrop of financial uncertainty all season and last night Peter Pannu, the vice-chairman, announced that the club’s accounts would finally be published next week, and that a new investor had been identified.
- Specifically on the question of Article 8 considerations, the Court of Appeal expressed the view that it was difficult to see how a chief constable’s decision to disclose [the applicant’s charges to the employer] could ever be challenged (see paragraph 81 above). The Court observes that the case was decided against the backdrop of a clearly-defined legislative framework (i.e., the 1997 Act, which was in force in England and Wales at the time) which the court took to be in compliance with Article 8 (see paragraph 78 above).
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Any background situation.
- Against a backdrop of falling interest rates, the new savings account is looking less appealing.
- Against this backdrop, RDG said it needed to "review historic working practices so that the railway can respond to changing passenger needs and enable future growth".
backdropverb/ˈbæk.dɹɒp/
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To serve as a backdrop for.
- a brilliant sunset backdropping the famous skyline
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