- 1小明星、新星（多指年輕女演員）。中文的「小明星」那種帶點看輕的味道很接近。現在算舊派用語，講 young actress 比較安全。
A young actress who gets small parts in films and is hoped, or hopes, to become famous — a star who is not a star yet. The word carries a load of feeling that the plain definition hides. It is almost always used about women, it is old-fashioned, and it often sounds slightly patronising: it suggests someone young and pretty who is being looked at and talked about more than she is being taken seriously as an artist. It belongs to the world of gossip magazines and old Hollywood. Because of this, many people now avoid it and just say young actress. When you meet it in an older book or film review, read the tone carefully — the writer may be her, or may be quietly looking down on her.
組成star + -let. The ending -let makes something small: a little star. It is the same shrinking ending you see across English, borrowed long ago from French.
原始詞典資料4 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。
starletnoun詞源 1/ˈstɑɹlɪt/
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A young actress with a promising career ahead of her.
- There were other flapper-era starlets, of course—Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo—but they were poseurs by comparison.
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An accomplished and important supporting player in a sports team.
- As Mourinho also entered the press room while most journalists were still watching the players’ lap of honour, nothing could be confirmed about the condition of Pogba, who scored United’s second goal and the Portuguese declined a chance to praise some fine performances from his starlets, with Josh Harrop scoring on his debut.
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A small star.
- It e'en the semblance of sound's softest echo Were to compare the faintest starlet's beam, Struggling through angry clouds its misty Ray, With the all-powerful Sun's meridian ray, Dazzling the gaze of nature — doth pervade The atmosphere, as 'twere a whisper's shadow Or breathing soft disembodied souls;
- As I saw the love-light beam From her radiant eyes, more glorious far Than the starlet's nightly gleam :
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。