核心畫面

Picture a raised platform with people sitting in front of it, looking. Staging can be thought of as everything you do to get something up onto that platform and make it look right from out front — a play, a festival, even a flat you want a buyer to admire. Sometimes the word stays with the platform itself: the boards and posts a worker stands on.

這一支的畫面可以想成:一個抬高的台子,前面坐著一群人在看。staging 就是「把東西弄上那個台子,還要讓它從前面看更多收起這一支的畫面可以想成:一個抬高的台子,前面坐著一群人在看。staging 就是「把東西弄上那個台子,還要讓它從前面看起來對」的整件事。一齣戲是這樣:導演、佈景、走位都得安排好。一場活動也是這樣:場地、流程、當天的運作。連要賣的房子都可以這樣——先擺好,再請人進來看。有時候這個字就停在台子本身:工人臨時架起來、站上去做事的那塊板。

From the word’s history

The packet's source entry analyses the word as stage + -ing, that is, 'the doing of stage'. That reading still fits every meaning in this group: something is being put up on a raised surface for others to look at.

packet 裡的來源把這個字拆成 stage(台子/舞台)+ -ing(做這件事),字面就是「上台這件事」。這條線索正好對上這一群意思:有東西被架上去、被擺出來,前面有人在看。

Wiktionary entry for 'staging' supplied in this packet — etymology_text: 'By surface analysis, stage + -ing.' (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1321586380)

Four branches

把戲搬上舞台

這一族最貼近核心畫面:真的有一個舞台,前面真的坐著觀眾。

noun · B2

The work of putting a play or an opera on a stage in front of an audience, or one particular production of it, including the way it is directed, designed and dressed.

演出/製作

把活動辦起來

舞台換成了整座城市或整個場地,但事情沒變:搭起來、讓大家看。

noun · C1

The work of organizing and holding a large public event, such as a sports competition, a concert or a festival.

舉辦

擺出來給人看

這一族把舞台的想法搬進房間裡:觀眾變成買家,佈景變成家具。

noun · C1

The work of arranging a room, a place or a set of objects so that it makes the best possible impression on the people who see it — most often a home that is for sale or for rent.

佈置美化

臨時架起來的台子

這一族沒有走進比喻,就是核心畫面裡那塊被架高的板子本身。

noun · C1

A flat raised floor made of posts and boards, put up for a short time so that people can stand on it and reach their work.

工作台架

原始詞典資料13 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

stagingnoun/ˈsteɪd͡ʒɪŋ/

  • 1

    entertainmentlifestyletheaterA performance of a play.

    • The 1984 premiere production (and, judging from a few reviews, the subsequent stagings) was much more solemn.
  • 2

    broadcastingentertainmentfilmThe act of adapting a literary work into a play or (more loosely) into a film.

    • As a movie production it beats the book. Colin Campbell is given the credit of having staged the production yet to [sic] one familiar with the book and Beach’s style of description and love of adventure, can readily see that Beach had an important hand in the staging of his novel before the camera.
    • Akins’s prominence as a playwright would later become significant to Wharton in the staging of her novel The Old Maid.
  • 3

    broadcastingentertainmentfilmThe scenery or organization of the movements of actors onstage or (more loosely) on a film set.

    • The movie's staging has the actors facing forward, as if playing before a live audience, in the style of fifties television situation comedies.
    • This, he argues, was in turn especially strongly shaped by imported British theatre traditions, particularly the use of the proscenium arch stage which was radically different from the open staging of precolonial and early colonial India and produced and emphasis on frontality in theatre productions that is now deeply structured into Bollywood films, most notably in their smile-at-the-camera song-and-dance sequences.
  • 4

    The arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression.

    • Ranging along a continuum of degrees of "realism," each of these tourist sites embraces particular conceptions of animal subjectivity, notions of authenticity, and models of human-animal relationships. Each represents a different relationship to the concept of "situ." The higher the perceived realism quotient for each site, the more difficult it is to detect the staging of the natural.
    • Staging often raises the value of a property by reducing the home's flaws, depersonalizing, de-cluttering, cleaning, and making it look its best with furniture placement, lighting, color, and much more.
  • 5

    The organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it.

    • Staging Mobilities explores the dynamic process between 'being staged' (as, for example, when traffic lights command us to stop or when timetables organize your route and itineraries) and the "mobile staging" of interacting individuals (as, for example, when we negotiate a passage on the pavement, or when we choose a particular mode of transport in accordance with our self-perception. The rationale for the book is therefore to address the following overall research question: What are the physical, social, technical and cultural conditions for the staging of contemporary urban mobilities?
    • Kierkegaard wants his listeners to see Thorvaldsen's statue in the same way that he wants his readers to attend to his writing -- not as an end in itself, but as a staging of desire.
  • 6

    A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.

    • We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.
    • As was the case with the City & South London, powers were taken to sink shafts from temporary staging in the river, about 240 ft. from the south bank, from which to begin boring the tunnels, and the first pile for the staging was driven on June 18, 1894.
  • 7

    The act or process of putting on an event.

    • The item 'event costs' is particularly difficult to break down since the staging of the competitions results in a variety of different expenditures.
    • The staging of events which aimed to transform the city's public spaces and streets into spectacular urban landscapes for promotional purposes was also pioneered in the late 1920s.
  • 8

    The business of running stagecoaches.

另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    The act of journeying in stagecoaches.

  • 10

    The classification of a case of a disease, usually a cancer, into its anatomic or prognostic stage, which is a category of severity.

    • By convention, clinical staging should be performed after complete excision of the primary melanoma (including microstaging) and after information about metastases to either regional or distant anatomic sites has been obtained after clinical, radiologic, and laboratory assessment.
  • 11

    computingengineeringmathematicsAn environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment.

  • 12

    The process of loading and unloading commercial vehicles.

    • Lost productivity and earning potential: Commercial drivers are paid for their time on the road. If delays occur during staging, both drivers and companies can lose money. Drivers may wait in long lines at warehouses with little direction, resulting in wasted time and lost productivity.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。