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单词 aside
释义 aside
I. \əˈ-\ adverb
Etymology: Middle English, from a- (I) + side
1.
 a. : to or toward one side
  < draw aside the curtains >
 b. : sidewise, aslant, obliquely
  < practiced to lisp and hang the head aside — Alexander Pope >
2. now dialect : by the side : alongside — usually used with following of
 < he sat down aside of me >
3.
 a. : out of the way : away from a group : in or into privacy : apart
  < had been taken aside by his father — Rex Ingamells >
 b. : away from oneself
  < he threw his coat aside >
 c. : away from one's thought or use : out of consideration
  < all such protests were brushed aside as purely superficial — Osbert Lancaster >
 d. archaic : away from the correct or right way : astray
  < they are all gone aside — Ps 14:3 (Authorized Version) >
4. : set to one side
 < matters which, exceptional cases aside, no investor can settle with the foreign government — M.A.Heilperin >
5. : on each side : to a side
 < a football match in the High Street with 50 or 60 aside — G.G.Carter >
II. preposition
1. obsolete : beyond, past
 < the kind prince … hath rushed aside the law — Shakespeare >
2. dialect : beside, near
 < was always at the wheel with the little boy aside him — Karlton Kelm >
III. noun
(-s)
1.
 a. : words spoken aside or in a low tone so as to be inaudible to some person or persons present
  < after a few parting asides to Mrs. Wales she led Cecily into the house — Hamilton Basso >
 b.
  (1) : words spoken by a character in a play that are heard by the audience but are supposedly not heard by other characters on stage
  (2) : a stage convention using such words
2. : a departure from the subject or principal theme (as of an essay or lecture) : digression, parenthesis
 < the author frequently stops the narrative for caustic asides and remarks on a wide variety of subjects — R.A.Cordell >
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