单词 | aside |
释义 | 1. adverb and noun uses aside (əsaɪd ) adverb and noun uses Word forms: asides In addition to the uses shown below, aside is used in phrasal verbs such as 'cast aside', 'stand aside', and 'step aside'.1. adverb [ADVERB after verb] B2 If you move something aside, you move it to one side of you. Sarah closed the book and laid it aside. Synonyms: to one side, away, alone, separately 2. adverb [ADVERB after verb] B2 If you take or draw someone aside, you take them a little way away from a group of people in order to talk to them in private. Billy Ewing grabbed him by the elbow and took him aside. Will put his arm around her shoulders and drew her aside. 3. adverb [ADVERB after verb] B2 If you move aside, you get out of someone's way. She had been standing in the doorway, but now she stepped aside to let them pass. 4. adverb [ADVERB after verb] B2 If you set something such as time, money, or space aside for a particular purpose, you save it and do not use it for anything else. She wants to put her pocket-money aside for holidays. ...the ground set aside for the new cathedral. 5. adverb [ADVERB after verb] If you brush or sweep aside a feeling or suggestion, you reject it. Talk to a friend who will really listen and not brush aside your feelings. The Prime Minister swept aside concern about the rising cost of mortgages. 6. adverb [ADVERB after verb, noun ADVERB] You use aside to indicate that you have finished talking about something, or that you are leaving it out of your discussion, and that you are about to talk about something else. Leaving aside the nutritional argument, these loaves are better value. Emotional arguments aside, here are the facts. Synonyms: apart, notwithstanding 7. countable noun An aside is a comment that a character in a play makes to the audience, which the other characters are supposed not to be able to hear. She rolls her eyes and mutters an aside to the camera, 'No wonder I'm stressed!' Synonyms: interpolation, remark, parenthesis, digression 8. countable noun An aside is something that you say that is not directly connected with what you are talking about. The pace of the book is leisurely, with enjoyable literary and historical asides. Collocations: leave aside That's leaving aside the after-effects. Times, Sunday Times (2015) We always complain about being left aside. The Sun (2012) Spoon into a small serving bowl, cover and leave aside in the fridge until ready to serve. The Sun (2013) We'll leave aside the awful irony and just let the Aussie choir sing. The Sun (2011) They only leave aside the symbolic changes which were introduced by the constitutional treaty. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Why would he lose time to move aside? Times, Sunday Times (2014) The quilt can be moved aside and the base used as a table. Times, Sunday Times (2010) His momentum took him so far that the slip fielders often had to move aside to avoid being mown down. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Those who advocated too much were shoved aside. Times, Sunday Times Or he might be shoved aside by history in favour of a psychic seal or a delphic sparrow. Times, Sunday Times We had to be shoved aside to receive an emergency top-up. Times, Sunday Times That's fine but it should not mean that the genuinely needy are shoved aside. The Sun Now though, that youthful promise may be shoved aside. Times, Sunday Times But it's a disgrace the case was shunted aside in the first place. The Sun (2011) One by one, most of the bears either changed their views or found themselves shunted aside. DOT.CON (2001) The international partners were unhappy, but their concerns were shunted aside. MEASURING AMERICA (2002) Many of them have shunted aside film work. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Ministers will vow today to sweep aside regulations that hold back business and cost the economy 3billion a year. The Sun When they emerged for the second half, they appeared ready to sweep aside a team whose rearguard action threatened to pinch a point. Times, Sunday Times It will enable him to sweep aside his party's old guard and choose younger, more technocratic ministers. Times, Sunday Times The moon moves into your zone of big issues and helps you sweep aside the small stuff. The Sun Never has there been such an expectation that the title challengers will sweep aside their opponents week after week. Times, Sunday Times Tax accountants are also being swept aside. Times, Sunday Times (2015) But their whole performance is so fine that reservations are swept aside. Times, Sunday Times (2013) It would be wrong to view the co-production arrangement as yet another example of traditional media being swept aside. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Translations: Chinese: 在旁边 Japanese: わきへ |
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