| 单词 | cup-and-saucer |
| 释义 | > as lemmascup-and-saucer cup-and-saucer adj. designation of a naturalistic style in the late nineteenth-century theatre, introduced by T. W. Robertson. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > other types satyric1637 cup-and-saucer1881 slice of life1895 glued-up1906 compressionist1961 am-dram1985 1881 Times 27 Dec. 3/5 It [sc. Albery's Two Roses] has more than the merit, though it has hardly met with the popularity of the ‘cup and saucer’ comedies of the late Mr. T. W. Robertson. 1892 W. Archer in G. B. Shaw Prefaces (1934) 667/2 The scheme of a twaddling cup-and-saucer comedy. 1933 G. B. Shaw in Shaw on Theatre (1958) 222 The stuffiness of the London cup-and-saucer theatre. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。