audition
Word family nounauditionadjectiveauditive
au·di·tion1 /ɔːˈdɪʃən $ ɒː-/ noun [countableC] APTa short performance by an actor, singer etc that someone watches to judge if they are good enough to act in a play, sing in a concert etc 试镜,试演,试唱audition for I’ve got an audition for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra on Friday. 星期五我要去伯恩茅斯交响乐团试演。
audition• A: It was really an audition.• an audition for the lead part• I used to sit and watch him at auditions.• Entry to the course, as might be expected, depends largely on auditions.• His unusual choice and his talent brought a second audition, and then the coveted part in the West End.• She'd been to several auditions and not been offered anything and she didn't seem to have any men around.• Taking a cricket bat to the audition isn't a bad idea although you can get the same effect with an umbrella.• I flew to London, went to the audition straight off. audition2 verb 1 APT[intransitiveI] to take part in an audition 试演,试唱audition for She’s auditioning for Ophelia in ‘Hamlet’. 她在试演《哈姆雷特》中的奥菲莉娅一角。
2 [transitiveT] to watch and judge someone’s performance in an audition 对…面试,让…试演 We auditioned more than 200 dancers before deciding on Carole Ann. 在决定录用卡罗尔·安之前我们面试了200多个舞蹈演员。
Origin audition1 (1500-1600) Latin auditio “hearing”, from
audire;
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