英和和英

語源

off +‎ stage

形容詞

offstage (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to that part of a stage not visible to the audience.
2. Of or relating to the private life of a celebrity.

副詞

offstage (not comparable)

1. Taking place offstage (as above)

反意語

• onstage

動詞

offstage (三人称単数 現在形 offstages, 現在分詞 offstaging, 過去形および過去分詞形 offstaged)

1. (transitive) To relegate (part of a play) to the offstage area, rather than showing it to the audience.
   • 2009, Rodney Edgecombe, Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin Morgan, page 94:

     A boy has just murdered another one year older than himself, but Morgan offstages the event as a nuntius would the horrors of Greek tragedy.