stage
英 [steɪdʒ]
美[stedʒ]
- n. 阶段；舞台；戏剧；驿站
- vt. 举行；上演；筹划
- vi. 举行；适于上演；乘驿车旅行
- n. (Stage)人名；(英)斯特奇
英英释意
- 1. any distinct time period in a sequence of events;
- "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"
- 2. a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process;
- "a remarkable degree of frankness"
- "at what stage are the social sciences?"
- 3. a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience;
- "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box"
- 4. the theater as a profession (usually `the stage');
- "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"
- 5. any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something;
- "All the world's a stage"--Shakespeare
- "it set the stage for peaceful negotiations"
- 6. a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns;
- "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles"
- 7. a section or portion of a journey or course;
- "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
- 8. a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination