Definition of aside in English:

aside

adverb əˈsʌɪdəˈsaɪd

1To one side; out of the way.
到一边；在旁边
he pushed his plate aside
他把盘子推到一边。
they stood aside to let a car pass
他们站到一边让车过去。
she must put aside all her antagonistic feelings
她必须把她的对抗情绪搁到一边。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was an occasion when both sides put aside political controversies to seek solutions.
- She mentally pushed the pain aside and stood slowly.
- Ruth looked at her coldly, pushed her plate aside and stormed out.
- I tossed the useless tent stake aside and stood up, wiping the sweat off my face.
- He laid his knife and fork in a precise X on his plate and pushed it aside.
- Observers say for this plan to succeed, all sides must put aside their reservations and return to the negotiating table.
- Challenging the onslaught of modern fashion, the ancient art of henna design still stands ground, refusing to be pushed aside.
- Get used to pushing your plate aside when you've had enough.
- After they finished eating, they pushed their plates aside.
- Lift the meat out of the pot and set it aside on a plate.
- Casting the lectern aside, he stood at the front of the stage, oozing boyish charm and melting more than a few hearts in the audience.
- Mary pushed aside the curtain and stood looking out into the front yard.
- No matter what feelings she was going through, she needed to put them aside and fight along side her brother.
- He pushed the blankets aside and stood as his mother left.
- Evan put his program on hold and pushed the monitor aside, standing up to stretch.
- Someone pushed the guy aside and stood in the doorway.
- Her father pushed aside a plate full of sandwiches, and went through the report thoughtfully, while listening to her narration.
- He ate only a little before pushing his plate aside.
- As Julie faces a possible future without the love of her life, she must push her fears aside and stand by Luke through thick and thin.
- We must put our differences and criticisms aside and stand together against our common foes.
Synonyms
to one side, to the side
on one side, alongside
apart, away, separately, alone, by oneself/itself, distant, detached, in isolation
1. 1.1 In reserve; for future use.
  以备未来之用
  she set aside some money for rent
  她留下一些钱以便交房租。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Now that you know how to track and control your spending, it's time to start setting aside extra for the future.
  We are paying off an extra billion of debt, and we are putting much of the rest aside against the future needs of this possible downturn.
  Around the turn of the century, when the nation began setting aside forest reserves, professional foresters debated whether fire was good or bad.
  These are a unique group of cells that the embryo sets aside for future reproduction.
  May we therefore set it aside for the future preparation of this appeal?
  Though I well understand the need to put aside for the future, how can I when almost all my income goes into feeding and housing my family?
  Even among those who are putting money aside for their future, many are simply not saving enough.
  Where then are the reserves put aside to cover the employee?
  I think it is a reasonable and economically responsible move to put funding aside for future public service superannuation.
  Bills or no bills you've got to put something aside for the future.
  All insurance companies have special experts called actuaries, who assess how much money needs to be put aside in reserve for future claims against an insurance company.
  Quite simply, when consumers see their own homes appreciating in value, they feel less inclination to put aside income for the future.
  It is never too soon to start putting money aside for your future.
  Other countries, worried about trade deficits, are trying to trim them and put aside reserves.
  This period is a boon for advisers as all sorts of self-employed workers try to minimise this year's tax bill by setting aside income for future pensions.
  If you stay within your budget, there may be an opportunity for you to set money aside for future purchases.
  That requires some sort of reserve being put aside.
  The upcoming wedding is eating into the couple's savings, making it a challenge to put aside money for the future.
  Moreover, new accounting rules mean even larger sums need to be put aside for reserves.
  I had reserve chapters put aside in case of writer's block.
2. 1.2 Used to indicate that one is dismissing a topic or changing to a new subject.
  joking aside, I've certainly had my fill
  玩笑归玩笑，我可是够受用的了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  That strikes me as pretty good going and, leaving aside the question of the value of public transport, should please any supporter of the free market, in transport or otherwise.
  Leaving aside major humanitarian and social issues, what aspects of everyday life would you cheerfully throw out and consider the world to be a better place without them?
  But all joking aside, this is a positive thing for my family, and a blessing of an opportunity for my family to be closer again.
  This may be because he simply wasn't as good as the others, but leaving aside such value judgements, his position in history wasn't helped by the fact that many of his works were destroyed in a fire.
  Joking aside, we hope they all had a lovely time.
  We are speeding up, and given this rate we should catch up pretty quick - even leaving aside the new wildly new cool things we are planning to launch in the next few months.
  Errors aside, the book is distractingly overwritten.
  But, leaving aside social issues, the transformation is striking.
  A handful of side quests aside, the main plot is completely linear and the approaches to the missions themselves give the player few options.
  That faux pas aside, this book is entertaining, educational, and highly recommended as a worthy investment of one's time and effort.
  Leaving aside the fact that there are major road and infrastructural deficiencies this is completely contrary to the greater public interest.
  But all joking aside, most of the celebrities we spoke to agreed that America made its decision, and it was definitely time to move forward.
  The respectability of conspiracy theories in that sense (leaving aside sheer insanities) is surprisingly relative.
  Leaving aside the practical problem of how on earth he could force them to stay, let alone be productive labour, the source for this claim is entirely unreliable.
  To begin with, local organizations often must put aside historical antagonisms among potential members.
  Joking aside, he says the weekly meetings at his club are not just a forum for discussion, but change.
  As such, even leaving aside the ethics of the thing, I sometimes wonder how historians manage to keep their jobs after trashing their primary source material.
  All joking aside though, the touch technology provides measurable quantitative differences in the efficiency by which people can complete that kind of task.
  But, putting aside the commercial side of the story, it's always nice and exciting to have a meeting with Santa, whatever age you are.
  Leaving aside potential issues with subject matter, it's a bit of a one-trick horse, isn't it, with the flashbacks and all?
  Synonyms
  apart, notwithstanding

noun əˈsʌɪdəˈsaɪd

1A remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.
旁白
Shakespeare's use of asides and soliloquies
Example sentencesExamples
- More of the changes had to do with breaking the fourth wall and actually interacting with the audience or making critical asides about certain actions and speeches.
- The clever asides that create a covert intimacy with the audience were too quick for the vocal transitions, if any, to register.
- They weren't just asides to give voice to the feelings of the characters.
- Audiences were called out during monologues or asides.
- The text is delivered in a conversational manner, with frequent asides directed to the audience.
- Rather than letting such asides dominate his material, Hamilton cleverly weaves them into the overall flow.
- The asides to the audience from many of the performers were hilarious but their faces never slipped and they played their parts straight down the line.
- They are constantly aware that they are in the midst of a movie, and some of the funniest laughs come from their asides to the audience.
- He uses a language that is accessible to a larger audience, and more suited to humorous asides.
- His musical set-pieces, as well as character asides in the form of short monologue, are a delight to watch.
- In a number of asides, the magicians joke with the women in the audience, insinuating that Platonic love, although delightful in theory, is unlikely to satisfy their every need.
- The revenger also usually had a very close relationship with the audience through soliloquies and asides.
- This adaptation emphasises the inherent humour of the play, especially in the devil's asides and monologues.
- There is a fair amount of ludicrous drag, broad farce, heart-rending, bosom-heaving dramatics and pithy asides to an appreciative audience.
- Typically, viewers gain this knowledge through one character's asides or soliloquies of which other characters are unaware or through the use of a chorus commenting on events as they unfold on the stage.
- With no asides and soliloquies, nothing is put in to sweeten the pill.
- It is true, of course, that Shakespeare's dramaturgy allows him soliloquies and asides that make it easier to dramatize thought, but Hamlet's thoughts are still necessarily externalized.
- He created a half-dozen memorable characters that often winked and made funny, out-of-context asides to the audience, and no one topped him at ad-libbing.
- The vibrant cast in modern dress hurl contemporary references, songs, slang and asides into Shakespeare's verse, accentuating the comic and the physical.
- It takes more than a nice tan, a good smile, and some flashy tapered jeans to pull off the stopping of time to make asides to the audience.
Synonyms
whispered remark, confidential remark, stage whisper
soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe
casual remark, throwaway line
digression, parenthetic remark, incidental remark, obiter dictum, deviation, departure, red herring, excursus
archaic excursion
1. 1.1 A remark not intended to be heard by everyone present.
  小声说的话（不想被所有在场的人都听见的话）
  ‘Does that make him a murderer?’ whispered Alice in an aside to Fred
  “那就说明他是凶手了吗？”艾丽斯对弗雷德轻声说道。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The distressed skipper heard an aside which sounded something like - ‘that tells us a lot’.
  She felt herself unable to face the whispered asides and scornful remarks which would accompany her acceptance of any offer.
2. 1.2 A remark that is not directly related to the main topic of discussion.
  题外话
  the recipe book has little asides about the importance of home and family
  这本食谱很少有关于家庭生活和家人重要性的题外话。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Actual licenses, annotated and explained, are the body of the book with plenty of legal asides and some gentle (legally-phrased) criticism where necessary.
  Frequently this soliloquy was peppered with incidental asides about the neighbour's dog, the mean man at the bus station and various other thinly veiled references to how hard her life was.
  It contains many gems, some of which are asides about how books can be dangerous in unexpected ways.
  The next three posts will be a detailed account of the lectures and the question-and-answer session, with comments about the audience and a few asides from me.
  In other instances, the tangential asides and interruptions that characterize any conversation are more distracting than helpful.
  One wonders what these asides are supposed to achieve.
  These lengthy asides are the book's most consistent flaw.
  He wanders into pointless asides, conspiracy theories and even presumes to lecture the audience about its loyalty to Canada.
  At the beginning, such reviews were a blend of descriptive reports and theoretical asides, frequently not devoid of controversy.
  Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments, or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived.
  However, some editing would not be amiss, as each piece continues long after its point has been made, with too many digressions and asides.
  You'll have to tolerate the digressions, the asides, the off-the-cuff remarks.
  The little asides about people are what make the book so memorable.
  The book offers good intentions, fascinating asides and digressions, and competent plot summary, along with textual analysis often marred by unsupported conjecture.
  There are in these uninterrupted hundred minutes valuable insights, humorous anecdotes, pertinent and impertinent asides.
  He made dry asides to reporters at City Hall events, and freely distributed his pager number immediately after taking the oath.
  As an aside: anthropology books make excellent pillows as well.
  This is a fantastic, weird, warped and richly indulgent book, full of authorial asides and the occasional rant: it centres around ideas of politics, war and ritual.
  An aside from this is that I once dated a girl who had this tiny, adorable little gap on her top row.

Phrases

aside from

Apart from.
除了
aside from gain the commoner motives for murder are anger and jealousy
Example sentencesExamples
- I have been through emotional agony in almost every relationship with men, aside from my father and Robert.
- What conclusions can be drawn from this aside from that it is wise to get a full night of sleep?
- Yes, it's a tall building, but aside from that what would make it a notable target?
- I don't use transport very often, aside from the occasional trip on one of London's tube trains.
- A full scale search was launched and thankfully she was found unharmed, aside from suffering from the cold.
- In fact, aside from the occasional pan of seafood, Jonathan is virtually vegetarian.
- The good thing is, aside from some privacy, you don't have to hear a roommate's snore.
- The only thing they had in common, aside from playing music, was that they played it too loud.
- I remember little of the evening aside from this fact, and am consequently suffering today.
- Anna was average looking, aside from her large ears that seemed to stick out a lot to her.
- When he opened the wooden doors he was able to see one set of clothes set aside from the others.
- The three acre campsite was completely empty, aside from the one family.
- The exhibit spans multiple rooms and displays many works aside from the pop art he is most famous for.
- There may be little new here aside from his emphasis on long range planning over short term gains.
- It's a an exciting pageant of anniversaries this week, even aside from my own birthday.
- Nonetheless, it's there and it's giving me no trouble, aside from still being sore.
- The others detract, receive value or stand aside from the work of the first group.
- The real beauty of the play, aside from its razor-sharp comedy, is its persuasiveness.
- His jovial manner and friendly approach sets him aside from all others that ever worked in town.
- Of the eight or so people who were in the room already, only one other kid aside from me was off alone.
Synonyms
apart from, besides, in addition to, over and above, beyond, not counting, leaving aside, barring, other than, but, but for, excluding, not including, without, with the exception of, except, except for, excepting, omitting, leaving out, short of, save, save for

take (or draw) someone aside

Move someone away from a group of people in order to talk privately.
把…从人群中叫出来以私下谈话
he took him aside and urged him to quit wasting his time and talent
Example sentencesExamples
- He took me aside after a few weeks and said he did not think I was a right-back and I had to agree with him.
- That night, Thad took me aside, out into the alley behind the kitchen.
- I frowned at her less than enthused reaction but before I could take her aside and call her on it she moved up to her oblivious family, politely greeting them with a false cheer that she obviously didn't feel.
- One day the warden actually took me aside and said he thought for my own mental welfare that I shouldn't stay there.
- I'm pleased because I did not know at the start of this season if the manager was going to bring in somebody else but he took me aside and told me and this only raised my confidence.
- I wanted to hurt the man for making my mother cry, but she took me aside as the group moved what they were carrying over to the side of the house.
- I was coming out of a restaurant recently with my wife, and one of them took me aside and told me to be careful - he pointed out a guy nearby on a motorbike and said that he'd heard he planned to follow us.
- He took me aside and said, ‘John, would you trust me to do some things here that I think are necessary?’
- It was great to have some thanks and my boss took me aside to thank me for my contribution to achieving the targets.
- I couldn't really relax, but Wes took me aside and said, ‘Look, you're here.’
- She took me aside and told me it was important that we stock his latest book prominantly in time for the holiday season.
- Otto then grabbed the little man by his collar and took him aside.
- The lovely person I was performing with took me aside afterwards and told me several things.
- But when I took him aside that afternoon he confessed that his right side felt weak.
- For some reason, that scene wasn't entirely working in rehearsal, but Billy took Hayden aside and told him to play the scene as though he actually believed what he was saying.
- He started to approach my Mom as if he was going to take her aside and engage her in a private conversation, but he didn't get the chance.
- His first day on campus, a counsellor took him aside, looked him in the eye and said: ‘Your kind never make it here.’
- Once, when I kept shifting off my alto line back to the melody line over and over again, he took me aside after the rehearsal and whispered, ‘Sing the melody.’
- Then, just as he was preparing for his most significant challenge yet, the manager took him aside in August to inform him of an imminent signing.
- He drew Harry aside so they could speak privately.

Origin

Middle English (originally on side): see a², side.

Rhymes

abide, applied, astride, backslide, beside, bestride, betide, bide, bride, chide, Clyde, cockeyed, coincide, collide, confide, cried, decide, divide, dried, elide, five-a-side, glide, guide, hide, hollow-eyed, I'd, implied, lied, misguide, nationwide, nide, offside, onside, outride, outside, pan-fried, pied, pie-eyed, pitch-side, popeyed, pride, provide, ride, Said, shied, side, slide, sloe-eyed, snide, square-eyed, starry-eyed, statewide, Strathclyde, stride, subdivide, subside, tide, tried, undyed, wall-eyed, wide, worldwide

Definition of aside in US English:

aside

adverbəˈsaɪdəˈsīd

1To one side; out of the way.
到一边；在旁边
he pushed his plate aside
他把盘子推到一边。
they stood aside to let a car pass
他们站到一边让车过去。
she must put aside all her antagonistic feelings
她必须把她的对抗情绪搁到一边。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her father pushed aside a plate full of sandwiches, and went through the report thoughtfully, while listening to her narration.
- After they finished eating, they pushed their plates aside.
- Casting the lectern aside, he stood at the front of the stage, oozing boyish charm and melting more than a few hearts in the audience.
- Evan put his program on hold and pushed the monitor aside, standing up to stretch.
- Challenging the onslaught of modern fashion, the ancient art of henna design still stands ground, refusing to be pushed aside.
- He pushed the blankets aside and stood as his mother left.
- As Julie faces a possible future without the love of her life, she must push her fears aside and stand by Luke through thick and thin.
- I tossed the useless tent stake aside and stood up, wiping the sweat off my face.
- Lift the meat out of the pot and set it aside on a plate.
- Mary pushed aside the curtain and stood looking out into the front yard.
- It was an occasion when both sides put aside political controversies to seek solutions.
- Someone pushed the guy aside and stood in the doorway.
- He laid his knife and fork in a precise X on his plate and pushed it aside.
- Get used to pushing your plate aside when you've had enough.
- Ruth looked at her coldly, pushed her plate aside and stormed out.
- She mentally pushed the pain aside and stood slowly.
- We must put our differences and criticisms aside and stand together against our common foes.
- No matter what feelings she was going through, she needed to put them aside and fight along side her brother.
- He ate only a little before pushing his plate aside.
- Observers say for this plan to succeed, all sides must put aside their reservations and return to the negotiating table.
Synonyms
to one side, to the side
1. 1.1 In reserve; for future use.
  以备未来之用
  she set aside some money for rent
  她留下一些钱以便交房租。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I think it is a reasonable and economically responsible move to put funding aside for future public service superannuation.
  If you stay within your budget, there may be an opportunity for you to set money aside for future purchases.
  The upcoming wedding is eating into the couple's savings, making it a challenge to put aside money for the future.
  Moreover, new accounting rules mean even larger sums need to be put aside for reserves.
  I had reserve chapters put aside in case of writer's block.
  Though I well understand the need to put aside for the future, how can I when almost all my income goes into feeding and housing my family?
  That requires some sort of reserve being put aside.
  Quite simply, when consumers see their own homes appreciating in value, they feel less inclination to put aside income for the future.
  Other countries, worried about trade deficits, are trying to trim them and put aside reserves.
  May we therefore set it aside for the future preparation of this appeal?
  Even among those who are putting money aside for their future, many are simply not saving enough.
  Bills or no bills you've got to put something aside for the future.
  All insurance companies have special experts called actuaries, who assess how much money needs to be put aside in reserve for future claims against an insurance company.
  Around the turn of the century, when the nation began setting aside forest reserves, professional foresters debated whether fire was good or bad.
  We are paying off an extra billion of debt, and we are putting much of the rest aside against the future needs of this possible downturn.
  These are a unique group of cells that the embryo sets aside for future reproduction.
  This period is a boon for advisers as all sorts of self-employed workers try to minimise this year's tax bill by setting aside income for future pensions.
  Now that you know how to track and control your spending, it's time to start setting aside extra for the future.
  It is never too soon to start putting money aside for your future.
  Where then are the reserves put aside to cover the employee?
2. 1.2 Used to indicate that one is dismissing something from consideration, or that one is shifting from one topic or tone of discussion to another.
  用于表示不谈或不考虑某事，或改变话题或语气撇开，除去
  joking aside, I've certainly had my fill
  玩笑归玩笑，我可是够受用的了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  We are speeding up, and given this rate we should catch up pretty quick - even leaving aside the new wildly new cool things we are planning to launch in the next few months.
  But, leaving aside social issues, the transformation is striking.
  Leaving aside the fact that there are major road and infrastructural deficiencies this is completely contrary to the greater public interest.
  That faux pas aside, this book is entertaining, educational, and highly recommended as a worthy investment of one's time and effort.
  Leaving aside major humanitarian and social issues, what aspects of everyday life would you cheerfully throw out and consider the world to be a better place without them?
  But all joking aside, this is a positive thing for my family, and a blessing of an opportunity for my family to be closer again.
  To begin with, local organizations often must put aside historical antagonisms among potential members.
  This may be because he simply wasn't as good as the others, but leaving aside such value judgements, his position in history wasn't helped by the fact that many of his works were destroyed in a fire.
  But all joking aside, most of the celebrities we spoke to agreed that America made its decision, and it was definitely time to move forward.
  But, putting aside the commercial side of the story, it's always nice and exciting to have a meeting with Santa, whatever age you are.
  Errors aside, the book is distractingly overwritten.
  Leaving aside potential issues with subject matter, it's a bit of a one-trick horse, isn't it, with the flashbacks and all?
  That strikes me as pretty good going and, leaving aside the question of the value of public transport, should please any supporter of the free market, in transport or otherwise.
  Joking aside, he says the weekly meetings at his club are not just a forum for discussion, but change.
  The respectability of conspiracy theories in that sense (leaving aside sheer insanities) is surprisingly relative.
  All joking aside though, the touch technology provides measurable quantitative differences in the efficiency by which people can complete that kind of task.
  Leaving aside the practical problem of how on earth he could force them to stay, let alone be productive labour, the source for this claim is entirely unreliable.
  As such, even leaving aside the ethics of the thing, I sometimes wonder how historians manage to keep their jobs after trashing their primary source material.
  Joking aside, we hope they all had a lovely time.
  A handful of side quests aside, the main plot is completely linear and the approaches to the missions themselves give the player few options.
  Synonyms
  apart, notwithstanding

nounəˈsaɪdəˈsīd

1A remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.
旁白
Shakespeare's use of asides and soliloquies
Example sentencesExamples
- It takes more than a nice tan, a good smile, and some flashy tapered jeans to pull off the stopping of time to make asides to the audience.
- Rather than letting such asides dominate his material, Hamilton cleverly weaves them into the overall flow.
- The text is delivered in a conversational manner, with frequent asides directed to the audience.
- They are constantly aware that they are in the midst of a movie, and some of the funniest laughs come from their asides to the audience.
- The vibrant cast in modern dress hurl contemporary references, songs, slang and asides into Shakespeare's verse, accentuating the comic and the physical.
- There is a fair amount of ludicrous drag, broad farce, heart-rending, bosom-heaving dramatics and pithy asides to an appreciative audience.
- The revenger also usually had a very close relationship with the audience through soliloquies and asides.
- His musical set-pieces, as well as character asides in the form of short monologue, are a delight to watch.
- It is true, of course, that Shakespeare's dramaturgy allows him soliloquies and asides that make it easier to dramatize thought, but Hamlet's thoughts are still necessarily externalized.
- Typically, viewers gain this knowledge through one character's asides or soliloquies of which other characters are unaware or through the use of a chorus commenting on events as they unfold on the stage.
- In a number of asides, the magicians joke with the women in the audience, insinuating that Platonic love, although delightful in theory, is unlikely to satisfy their every need.
- The asides to the audience from many of the performers were hilarious but their faces never slipped and they played their parts straight down the line.
- They weren't just asides to give voice to the feelings of the characters.
- Audiences were called out during monologues or asides.
- He created a half-dozen memorable characters that often winked and made funny, out-of-context asides to the audience, and no one topped him at ad-libbing.
- He uses a language that is accessible to a larger audience, and more suited to humorous asides.
- This adaptation emphasises the inherent humour of the play, especially in the devil's asides and monologues.
- More of the changes had to do with breaking the fourth wall and actually interacting with the audience or making critical asides about certain actions and speeches.
- With no asides and soliloquies, nothing is put in to sweeten the pill.
- The clever asides that create a covert intimacy with the audience were too quick for the vocal transitions, if any, to register.
Synonyms
whispered remark, confidential remark, stage whisper
1. 1.1 A remark not intended to be heard by everyone present.
  小声说的话（不想被所有在场的人都听见的话）
  “Does that make him a murderer?” whispered Alice in an aside to Fred
  “那就说明他是凶手了吗？”艾丽斯对弗雷德轻声说道。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The distressed skipper heard an aside which sounded something like - ‘that tells us a lot’.
  She felt herself unable to face the whispered asides and scornful remarks which would accompany her acceptance of any offer.
2. 1.2 A remark that is not directly related to the main topic of discussion.
  题外话
  the recipe book has little asides about the importance of home and family
  这本食谱很少有关于家庭生活和家人重要性的题外话。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Actual licenses, annotated and explained, are the body of the book with plenty of legal asides and some gentle (legally-phrased) criticism where necessary.
  You'll have to tolerate the digressions, the asides, the off-the-cuff remarks.
  However, some editing would not be amiss, as each piece continues long after its point has been made, with too many digressions and asides.
  One wonders what these asides are supposed to achieve.
  Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments, or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived.
  As an aside: anthropology books make excellent pillows as well.
  There are in these uninterrupted hundred minutes valuable insights, humorous anecdotes, pertinent and impertinent asides.
  At the beginning, such reviews were a blend of descriptive reports and theoretical asides, frequently not devoid of controversy.
  Frequently this soliloquy was peppered with incidental asides about the neighbour's dog, the mean man at the bus station and various other thinly veiled references to how hard her life was.
  The next three posts will be a detailed account of the lectures and the question-and-answer session, with comments about the audience and a few asides from me.
  An aside from this is that I once dated a girl who had this tiny, adorable little gap on her top row.
  The little asides about people are what make the book so memorable.
  The book offers good intentions, fascinating asides and digressions, and competent plot summary, along with textual analysis often marred by unsupported conjecture.
  These lengthy asides are the book's most consistent flaw.
  In other instances, the tangential asides and interruptions that characterize any conversation are more distracting than helpful.
  He wanders into pointless asides, conspiracy theories and even presumes to lecture the audience about its loyalty to Canada.
  He made dry asides to reporters at City Hall events, and freely distributed his pager number immediately after taking the oath.
  This is a fantastic, weird, warped and richly indulgent book, full of authorial asides and the occasional rant: it centres around ideas of politics, war and ritual.
  It contains many gems, some of which are asides about how books can be dangerous in unexpected ways.

Phrases

aside from

Apart from.
除了
Example sentencesExamples
- His jovial manner and friendly approach sets him aside from all others that ever worked in town.
- It's a an exciting pageant of anniversaries this week, even aside from my own birthday.
- In fact, aside from the occasional pan of seafood, Jonathan is virtually vegetarian.
- I have been through emotional agony in almost every relationship with men, aside from my father and Robert.
- A full scale search was launched and thankfully she was found unharmed, aside from suffering from the cold.
- The real beauty of the play, aside from its razor-sharp comedy, is its persuasiveness.
- The good thing is, aside from some privacy, you don't have to hear a roommate's snore.
- The exhibit spans multiple rooms and displays many works aside from the pop art he is most famous for.
- I remember little of the evening aside from this fact, and am consequently suffering today.
- Anna was average looking, aside from her large ears that seemed to stick out a lot to her.
- Of the eight or so people who were in the room already, only one other kid aside from me was off alone.
- Nonetheless, it's there and it's giving me no trouble, aside from still being sore.
- The only thing they had in common, aside from playing music, was that they played it too loud.
- When he opened the wooden doors he was able to see one set of clothes set aside from the others.
- What conclusions can be drawn from this aside from that it is wise to get a full night of sleep?
- There may be little new here aside from his emphasis on long range planning over short term gains.
- The others detract, receive value or stand aside from the work of the first group.
- I don't use transport very often, aside from the occasional trip on one of London's tube trains.
- The three acre campsite was completely empty, aside from the one family.
- Yes, it's a tall building, but aside from that what would make it a notable target?
Synonyms
apart from, besides, in addition to, over and above, beyond, not counting, leaving aside, barring, other than, but, but for, excluding, not including, without, with the exception of, except, except for, excepting, omitting, leaving out, short of, save, save for

take (or draw) someone aside

Move someone away from a group of people in order to talk privately.
把…从人群中叫出来以私下谈话
Example sentencesExamples
- Then, just as he was preparing for his most significant challenge yet, the manager took him aside in August to inform him of an imminent signing.
- He started to approach my Mom as if he was going to take her aside and engage her in a private conversation, but he didn't get the chance.
- Once, when I kept shifting off my alto line back to the melody line over and over again, he took me aside after the rehearsal and whispered, ‘Sing the melody.’
- The lovely person I was performing with took me aside afterwards and told me several things.
- For some reason, that scene wasn't entirely working in rehearsal, but Billy took Hayden aside and told him to play the scene as though he actually believed what he was saying.
- He took me aside after a few weeks and said he did not think I was a right-back and I had to agree with him.
- She took me aside and told me it was important that we stock his latest book prominantly in time for the holiday season.
- He drew Harry aside so they could speak privately.
- Otto then grabbed the little man by his collar and took him aside.
- I wanted to hurt the man for making my mother cry, but she took me aside as the group moved what they were carrying over to the side of the house.
- One day the warden actually took me aside and said he thought for my own mental welfare that I shouldn't stay there.
- His first day on campus, a counsellor took him aside, looked him in the eye and said: ‘Your kind never make it here.’
- But when I took him aside that afternoon he confessed that his right side felt weak.
- That night, Thad took me aside, out into the alley behind the kitchen.
- I was coming out of a restaurant recently with my wife, and one of them took me aside and told me to be careful - he pointed out a guy nearby on a motorbike and said that he'd heard he planned to follow us.
- It was great to have some thanks and my boss took me aside to thank me for my contribution to achieving the targets.
- I frowned at her less than enthused reaction but before I could take her aside and call her on it she moved up to her oblivious family, politely greeting them with a false cheer that she obviously didn't feel.
- I couldn't really relax, but Wes took me aside and said, ‘Look, you're here.’
- He took me aside and said, ‘John, would you trust me to do some things here that I think are necessary?’
- I'm pleased because I did not know at the start of this season if the manager was going to bring in somebody else but he took me aside and told me and this only raised my confidence.

Origin

Middle English (originally on side): see a, side.

单词	aside
释义	Definition of aside in English: aside adverb əˈsʌɪdəˈsaɪd 1To one side; out of the way. 到一边；在旁边 he pushed his plate aside 他把盘子推到一边。 they stood aside to let a car pass 他们站到一边让车过去。 she must put aside all her antagonistic feelings 她必须把她的对抗情绪搁到一边。 Example sentencesExamples It was an occasion when both sides put aside political controversies to seek solutions. She mentally pushed the pain aside and stood slowly. Ruth looked at her coldly, pushed her plate aside and stormed out. I tossed the useless tent stake aside and stood up, wiping the sweat off my face. He laid his knife and fork in a precise X on his plate and pushed it aside. Observers say for this plan to succeed, all sides must put aside their reservations and return to the negotiating table. Challenging the onslaught of modern fashion, the ancient art of henna design still stands ground, refusing to be pushed aside. Get used to pushing your plate aside when you've had enough. After they finished eating, they pushed their plates aside. Lift the meat out of the pot and set it aside on a plate. Casting the lectern aside, he stood at the front of the stage, oozing boyish charm and melting more than a few hearts in the audience. Mary pushed aside the curtain and stood looking out into the front yard. No matter what feelings she was going through, she needed to put them aside and fight along side her brother. He pushed the blankets aside and stood as his mother left. Evan put his program on hold and pushed the monitor aside, standing up to stretch. Someone pushed the guy aside and stood in the doorway. Her father pushed aside a plate full of sandwiches, and went through the report thoughtfully, while listening to her narration. He ate only a little before pushing his plate aside. As Julie faces a possible future without the love of her life, she must push her fears aside and stand by Luke through thick and thin. We must put our differences and criticisms aside and stand together against our common foes. Synonyms to one side, to the side on one side, alongside apart, away, separately, alone, by oneself/itself, distant, detached, in isolation 1.1 In reserve; for future use. 以备未来之用 she set aside some money for rent 她留下一些钱以便交房租。 Example sentencesExamples Now that you know how to track and control your spending, it's time to start setting aside extra for the future. We are paying off an extra billion of debt, and we are putting much of the rest aside against the future needs of this possible downturn. Around the turn of the century, when the nation began setting aside forest reserves, professional foresters debated whether fire was good or bad. These are a unique group of cells that the embryo sets aside for future reproduction. May we therefore set it aside for the future preparation of this appeal? Though I well understand the need to put aside for the future, how can I when almost all my income goes into feeding and housing my family? Even among those who are putting money aside for their future, many are simply not saving enough. Where then are the reserves put aside to cover the employee? I think it is a reasonable and economically responsible move to put funding aside for future public service superannuation. Bills or no bills you've got to put something aside for the future. All insurance companies have special experts called actuaries, who assess how much money needs to be put aside in reserve for future claims against an insurance company. Quite simply, when consumers see their own homes appreciating in value, they feel less inclination to put aside income for the future. It is never too soon to start putting money aside for your future. Other countries, worried about trade deficits, are trying to trim them and put aside reserves. This period is a boon for advisers as all sorts of self-employed workers try to minimise this year's tax bill by setting aside income for future pensions. If you stay within your budget, there may be an opportunity for you to set money aside for future purchases. That requires some sort of reserve being put aside. The upcoming wedding is eating into the couple's savings, making it a challenge to put aside money for the future. Moreover, new accounting rules mean even larger sums need to be put aside for reserves. I had reserve chapters put aside in case of writer's block. 1.2 Used to indicate that one is dismissing a topic or changing to a new subject. joking aside, I've certainly had my fill 玩笑归玩笑，我可是够受用的了。 Example sentencesExamples That strikes me as pretty good going and, leaving aside the question of the value of public transport, should please any supporter of the free market, in transport or otherwise. Leaving aside major humanitarian and social issues, what aspects of everyday life would you cheerfully throw out and consider the world to be a better place without them? But all joking aside, this is a positive thing for my family, and a blessing of an opportunity for my family to be closer again. This may be because he simply wasn't as good as the others, but leaving aside such value judgements, his position in history wasn't helped by the fact that many of his works were destroyed in a fire. Joking aside, we hope they all had a lovely time. We are speeding up, and given this rate we should catch up pretty quick - even leaving aside the new wildly new cool things we are planning to launch in the next few months. Errors aside, the book is distractingly overwritten. But, leaving aside social issues, the transformation is striking. A handful of side quests aside, the main plot is completely linear and the approaches to the missions themselves give the player few options. That faux pas aside, this book is entertaining, educational, and highly recommended as a worthy investment of one's time and effort. Leaving aside the fact that there are major road and infrastructural deficiencies this is completely contrary to the greater public interest. But all joking aside, most of the celebrities we spoke to agreed that America made its decision, and it was definitely time to move forward. The respectability of conspiracy theories in that sense (leaving aside sheer insanities) is surprisingly relative. Leaving aside the practical problem of how on earth he could force them to stay, let alone be productive labour, the source for this claim is entirely unreliable. To begin with, local organizations often must put aside historical antagonisms among potential members. Joking aside, he says the weekly meetings at his club are not just a forum for discussion, but change. As such, even leaving aside the ethics of the thing, I sometimes wonder how historians manage to keep their jobs after trashing their primary source material. All joking aside though, the touch technology provides measurable quantitative differences in the efficiency by which people can complete that kind of task. But, putting aside the commercial side of the story, it's always nice and exciting to have a meeting with Santa, whatever age you are. Leaving aside potential issues with subject matter, it's a bit of a one-trick horse, isn't it, with the flashbacks and all? Synonyms apart, notwithstanding noun əˈsʌɪdəˈsaɪd 1A remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play. 旁白 Shakespeare's use of asides and soliloquies Example sentencesExamples More of the changes had to do with breaking the fourth wall and actually interacting with the audience or making critical asides about certain actions and speeches. The clever asides that create a covert intimacy with the audience were too quick for the vocal transitions, if any, to register. They weren't just asides to give voice to the feelings of the characters. Audiences were called out during monologues or asides. The text is delivered in a conversational manner, with frequent asides directed to the audience. Rather than letting such asides dominate his material, Hamilton cleverly weaves them into the overall flow. The asides to the audience from many of the performers were hilarious but their faces never slipped and they played their parts straight down the line. They are constantly aware that they are in the midst of a movie, and some of the funniest laughs come from their asides to the audience. He uses a language that is accessible to a larger audience, and more suited to humorous asides. His musical set-pieces, as well as character asides in the form of short monologue, are a delight to watch. In a number of asides, the magicians joke with the women in the audience, insinuating that Platonic love, although delightful in theory, is unlikely to satisfy their every need. The revenger also usually had a very close relationship with the audience through soliloquies and asides. This adaptation emphasises the inherent humour of the play, especially in the devil's asides and monologues. There is a fair amount of ludicrous drag, broad farce, heart-rending, bosom-heaving dramatics and pithy asides to an appreciative audience. Typically, viewers gain this knowledge through one character's asides or soliloquies of which other characters are unaware or through the use of a chorus commenting on events as they unfold on the stage. With no asides and soliloquies, nothing is put in to sweeten the pill. It is true, of course, that Shakespeare's dramaturgy allows him soliloquies and asides that make it easier to dramatize thought, but Hamlet's thoughts are still necessarily externalized. He created a half-dozen memorable characters that often winked and made funny, out-of-context asides to the audience, and no one topped him at ad-libbing. The vibrant cast in modern dress hurl contemporary references, songs, slang and asides into Shakespeare's verse, accentuating the comic and the physical. It takes more than a nice tan, a good smile, and some flashy tapered jeans to pull off the stopping of time to make asides to the audience. Synonyms whispered remark, confidential remark, stage whisper soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe casual remark, throwaway line digression, parenthetic remark, incidental remark, obiter dictum, deviation, departure, red herring, excursus archaic excursion 1.1 A remark not intended to be heard by everyone present. 小声说的话（不想被所有在场的人都听见的话） ‘Does that make him a murderer?’ whispered Alice in an aside to Fred “那就说明他是凶手了吗？”艾丽斯对弗雷德轻声说道。 Example sentencesExamples The distressed skipper heard an aside which sounded something like - ‘that tells us a lot’. She felt herself unable to face the whispered asides and scornful remarks which would accompany her acceptance of any offer. 1.2 A remark that is not directly related to the main topic of discussion. 题外话 the recipe book has little asides about the importance of home and family 这本食谱很少有关于家庭生活和家人重要性的题外话。 Example sentencesExamples Actual licenses, annotated and explained, are the body of the book with plenty of legal asides and some gentle (legally-phrased) criticism where necessary. Frequently this soliloquy was peppered with incidental asides about the neighbour's dog, the mean man at the bus station and various other thinly veiled references to how hard her life was. It contains many gems, some of which are asides about how books can be dangerous in unexpected ways. The next three posts will be a detailed account of the lectures and the question-and-answer session, with comments about the audience and a few asides from me. In other instances, the tangential asides and interruptions that characterize any conversation are more distracting than helpful. One wonders what these asides are supposed to achieve. These lengthy asides are the book's most consistent flaw. He wanders into pointless asides, conspiracy theories and even presumes to lecture the audience about its loyalty to Canada. At the beginning, such reviews were a blend of descriptive reports and theoretical asides, frequently not devoid of controversy. Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments, or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived. However, some editing would not be amiss, as each piece continues long after its point has been made, with too many digressions and asides. You'll have to tolerate the digressions, the asides, the off-the-cuff remarks. The little asides about people are what make the book so memorable. The book offers good intentions, fascinating asides and digressions, and competent plot summary, along with textual analysis often marred by unsupported conjecture. There are in these uninterrupted hundred minutes valuable insights, humorous anecdotes, pertinent and impertinent asides. He made dry asides to reporters at City Hall events, and freely distributed his pager number immediately after taking the oath. As an aside: anthropology books make excellent pillows as well. This is a fantastic, weird, warped and richly indulgent book, full of authorial asides and the occasional rant: it centres around ideas of politics, war and ritual. An aside from this is that I once dated a girl who had this tiny, adorable little gap on her top row. Phrases aside from Apart from. 除了 aside from gain the commoner motives for murder are anger and jealousy Example sentencesExamples I have been through emotional agony in almost every relationship with men, aside from my father and Robert. What conclusions can be drawn from this aside from that it is wise to get a full night of sleep? Yes, it's a tall building, but aside from that what would make it a notable target? I don't use transport very often, aside from the occasional trip on one of London's tube trains. A full scale search was launched and thankfully she was found unharmed, aside from suffering from the cold. In fact, aside from the occasional pan of seafood, Jonathan is virtually vegetarian. The good thing is, aside from some privacy, you don't have to hear a roommate's snore. The only thing they had in common, aside from playing music, was that they played it too loud. I remember little of the evening aside from this fact, and am consequently suffering today. Anna was average looking, aside from her large ears that seemed to stick out a lot to her. When he opened the wooden doors he was able to see one set of clothes set aside from the others. The three acre campsite was completely empty, aside from the one family. The exhibit spans multiple rooms and displays many works aside from the pop art he is most famous for. There may be little new here aside from his emphasis on long range planning over short term gains. It's a an exciting pageant of anniversaries this week, even aside from my own birthday. Nonetheless, it's there and it's giving me no trouble, aside from still being sore. The others detract, receive value or stand aside from the work of the first group. The real beauty of the play, aside from its razor-sharp comedy, is its persuasiveness. His jovial manner and friendly approach sets him aside from all others that ever worked in town. Of the eight or so people who were in the room already, only one other kid aside from me was off alone. Synonyms apart from, besides, in addition to, over and above, beyond, not counting, leaving aside, barring, other than, but, but for, excluding, not including, without, with the exception of, except, except for, excepting, omitting, leaving out, short of, save, save for take (or draw) someone aside Move someone away from a group of people in order to talk privately. 把…从人群中叫出来以私下谈话 he took him aside and urged him to quit wasting his time and talent Example sentencesExamples He took me aside after a few weeks and said he did not think I was a right-back and I had to agree with him. That night, Thad took me aside, out into the alley behind the kitchen. I frowned at her less than enthused reaction but before I could take her aside and call her on it she moved up to her oblivious family, politely greeting them with a false cheer that she obviously didn't feel. One day the warden actually took me aside and said he thought for my own mental welfare that I shouldn't stay there. I'm pleased because I did not know at the start of this season if the manager was going to bring in somebody else but he took me aside and told me and this only raised my confidence. I wanted to hurt the man for making my mother cry, but she took me aside as the group moved what they were carrying over to the side of the house. I was coming out of a restaurant recently with my wife, and one of them took me aside and told me to be careful - he pointed out a guy nearby on a motorbike and said that he'd heard he planned to follow us. He took me aside and said, ‘John, would you trust me to do some things here that I think are necessary?’ It was great to have some thanks and my boss took me aside to thank me for my contribution to achieving the targets. I couldn't really relax, but Wes took me aside and said, ‘Look, you're here.’ She took me aside and told me it was important that we stock his latest book prominantly in time for the holiday season. Otto then grabbed the little man by his collar and took him aside. The lovely person I was performing with took me aside afterwards and told me several things. But when I took him aside that afternoon he confessed that his right side felt weak. For some reason, that scene wasn't entirely working in rehearsal, but Billy took Hayden aside and told him to play the scene as though he actually believed what he was saying. He started to approach my Mom as if he was going to take her aside and engage her in a private conversation, but he didn't get the chance. His first day on campus, a counsellor took him aside, looked him in the eye and said: ‘Your kind never make it here.’ Once, when I kept shifting off my alto line back to the melody line over and over again, he took me aside after the rehearsal and whispered, ‘Sing the melody.’ Then, just as he was preparing for his most significant challenge yet, the manager took him aside in August to inform him of an imminent signing. He drew Harry aside so they could speak privately. Origin Middle English (originally on side): see a², side. Rhymes abide, applied, astride, backslide, beside, bestride, betide, bide, bride, chide, Clyde, cockeyed, coincide, collide, confide, cried, decide, divide, dried, elide, five-a-side, glide, guide, hide, hollow-eyed, I'd, implied, lied, misguide, nationwide, nide, offside, onside, outride, outside, pan-fried, pied, pie-eyed, pitch-side, popeyed, pride, provide, ride, Said, shied, side, slide, sloe-eyed, snide, square-eyed, starry-eyed, statewide, Strathclyde, stride, subdivide, subside, tide, tried, undyed, wall-eyed, wide, worldwide adv..1 phr. Definition of aside in US English: aside adverbəˈsaɪdəˈsīd 1To one side; out of the way. 到一边；在旁边 he pushed his plate aside 他把盘子推到一边。 they stood aside to let a car pass 他们站到一边让车过去。 she must put aside all her antagonistic feelings 她必须把她的对抗情绪搁到一边。 Example sentencesExamples Her father pushed aside a plate full of sandwiches, and went through the report thoughtfully, while listening to her narration. After they finished eating, they pushed their plates aside. Casting the lectern aside, he stood at the front of the stage, oozing boyish charm and melting more than a few hearts in the audience. Evan put his program on hold and pushed the monitor aside, standing up to stretch. Challenging the onslaught of modern fashion, the ancient art of henna design still stands ground, refusing to be pushed aside. He pushed the blankets aside and stood as his mother left. As Julie faces a possible future without the love of her life, she must push her fears aside and stand by Luke through thick and thin. I tossed the useless tent stake aside and stood up, wiping the sweat off my face. Lift the meat out of the pot and set it aside on a plate. Mary pushed aside the curtain and stood looking out into the front yard. It was an occasion when both sides put aside political controversies to seek solutions. Someone pushed the guy aside and stood in the doorway. He laid his knife and fork in a precise X on his plate and pushed it aside. Get used to pushing your plate aside when you've had enough. Ruth looked at her coldly, pushed her plate aside and stormed out. She mentally pushed the pain aside and stood slowly. We must put our differences and criticisms aside and stand together against our common foes. No matter what feelings she was going through, she needed to put them aside and fight along side her brother. He ate only a little before pushing his plate aside. Observers say for this plan to succeed, all sides must put aside their reservations and return to the negotiating table. Synonyms to one side, to the side 1.1 In reserve; for future use. 以备未来之用 she set aside some money for rent 她留下一些钱以便交房租。 Example sentencesExamples I think it is a reasonable and economically responsible move to put funding aside for future public service superannuation. If you stay within your budget, there may be an opportunity for you to set money aside for future purchases. The upcoming wedding is eating into the couple's savings, making it a challenge to put aside money for the future. Moreover, new accounting rules mean even larger sums need to be put aside for reserves. I had reserve chapters put aside in case of writer's block. Though I well understand the need to put aside for the future, how can I when almost all my income goes into feeding and housing my family? That requires some sort of reserve being put aside. Quite simply, when consumers see their own homes appreciating in value, they feel less inclination to put aside income for the future. Other countries, worried about trade deficits, are trying to trim them and put aside reserves. May we therefore set it aside for the future preparation of this appeal? Even among those who are putting money aside for their future, many are simply not saving enough. Bills or no bills you've got to put something aside for the future. All insurance companies have special experts called actuaries, who assess how much money needs to be put aside in reserve for future claims against an insurance company. Around the turn of the century, when the nation began setting aside forest reserves, professional foresters debated whether fire was good or bad. We are paying off an extra billion of debt, and we are putting much of the rest aside against the future needs of this possible downturn. These are a unique group of cells that the embryo sets aside for future reproduction. This period is a boon for advisers as all sorts of self-employed workers try to minimise this year's tax bill by setting aside income for future pensions. Now that you know how to track and control your spending, it's time to start setting aside extra for the future. It is never too soon to start putting money aside for your future. Where then are the reserves put aside to cover the employee? 1.2 Used to indicate that one is dismissing something from consideration, or that one is shifting from one topic or tone of discussion to another. 用于表示不谈或不考虑某事，或改变话题或语气撇开，除去 joking aside, I've certainly had my fill 玩笑归玩笑，我可是够受用的了。 Example sentencesExamples We are speeding up, and given this rate we should catch up pretty quick - even leaving aside the new wildly new cool things we are planning to launch in the next few months. But, leaving aside social issues, the transformation is striking. Leaving aside the fact that there are major road and infrastructural deficiencies this is completely contrary to the greater public interest. That faux pas aside, this book is entertaining, educational, and highly recommended as a worthy investment of one's time and effort. Leaving aside major humanitarian and social issues, what aspects of everyday life would you cheerfully throw out and consider the world to be a better place without them? But all joking aside, this is a positive thing for my family, and a blessing of an opportunity for my family to be closer again. To begin with, local organizations often must put aside historical antagonisms among potential members. This may be because he simply wasn't as good as the others, but leaving aside such value judgements, his position in history wasn't helped by the fact that many of his works were destroyed in a fire. But all joking aside, most of the celebrities we spoke to agreed that America made its decision, and it was definitely time to move forward. But, putting aside the commercial side of the story, it's always nice and exciting to have a meeting with Santa, whatever age you are. Errors aside, the book is distractingly overwritten. Leaving aside potential issues with subject matter, it's a bit of a one-trick horse, isn't it, with the flashbacks and all? That strikes me as pretty good going and, leaving aside the question of the value of public transport, should please any supporter of the free market, in transport or otherwise. Joking aside, he says the weekly meetings at his club are not just a forum for discussion, but change. The respectability of conspiracy theories in that sense (leaving aside sheer insanities) is surprisingly relative. All joking aside though, the touch technology provides measurable quantitative differences in the efficiency by which people can complete that kind of task. Leaving aside the practical problem of how on earth he could force them to stay, let alone be productive labour, the source for this claim is entirely unreliable. As such, even leaving aside the ethics of the thing, I sometimes wonder how historians manage to keep their jobs after trashing their primary source material. Joking aside, we hope they all had a lovely time. A handful of side quests aside, the main plot is completely linear and the approaches to the missions themselves give the player few options. Synonyms apart, notwithstanding nounəˈsaɪdəˈsīd 1A remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play. 旁白 Shakespeare's use of asides and soliloquies Example sentencesExamples It takes more than a nice tan, a good smile, and some flashy tapered jeans to pull off the stopping of time to make asides to the audience. Rather than letting such asides dominate his material, Hamilton cleverly weaves them into the overall flow. The text is delivered in a conversational manner, with frequent asides directed to the audience. They are constantly aware that they are in the midst of a movie, and some of the funniest laughs come from their asides to the audience. The vibrant cast in modern dress hurl contemporary references, songs, slang and asides into Shakespeare's verse, accentuating the comic and the physical. There is a fair amount of ludicrous drag, broad farce, heart-rending, bosom-heaving dramatics and pithy asides to an appreciative audience. The revenger also usually had a very close relationship with the audience through soliloquies and asides. His musical set-pieces, as well as character asides in the form of short monologue, are a delight to watch. It is true, of course, that Shakespeare's dramaturgy allows him soliloquies and asides that make it easier to dramatize thought, but Hamlet's thoughts are still necessarily externalized. Typically, viewers gain this knowledge through one character's asides or soliloquies of which other characters are unaware or through the use of a chorus commenting on events as they unfold on the stage. In a number of asides, the magicians joke with the women in the audience, insinuating that Platonic love, although delightful in theory, is unlikely to satisfy their every need. The asides to the audience from many of the performers were hilarious but their faces never slipped and they played their parts straight down the line. They weren't just asides to give voice to the feelings of the characters. Audiences were called out during monologues or asides. He created a half-dozen memorable characters that often winked and made funny, out-of-context asides to the audience, and no one topped him at ad-libbing. He uses a language that is accessible to a larger audience, and more suited to humorous asides. This adaptation emphasises the inherent humour of the play, especially in the devil's asides and monologues. More of the changes had to do with breaking the fourth wall and actually interacting with the audience or making critical asides about certain actions and speeches. With no asides and soliloquies, nothing is put in to sweeten the pill. The clever asides that create a covert intimacy with the audience were too quick for the vocal transitions, if any, to register. Synonyms whispered remark, confidential remark, stage whisper 1.1 A remark not intended to be heard by everyone present. 小声说的话（不想被所有在场的人都听见的话） “Does that make him a murderer?” whispered Alice in an aside to Fred “那就说明他是凶手了吗？”艾丽斯对弗雷德轻声说道。 Example sentencesExamples The distressed skipper heard an aside which sounded something like - ‘that tells us a lot’. She felt herself unable to face the whispered asides and scornful remarks which would accompany her acceptance of any offer. 1.2 A remark that is not directly related to the main topic of discussion. 题外话 the recipe book has little asides about the importance of home and family 这本食谱很少有关于家庭生活和家人重要性的题外话。 Example sentencesExamples Actual licenses, annotated and explained, are the body of the book with plenty of legal asides and some gentle (legally-phrased) criticism where necessary. You'll have to tolerate the digressions, the asides, the off-the-cuff remarks. However, some editing would not be amiss, as each piece continues long after its point has been made, with too many digressions and asides. One wonders what these asides are supposed to achieve. Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments, or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived. As an aside: anthropology books make excellent pillows as well. There are in these uninterrupted hundred minutes valuable insights, humorous anecdotes, pertinent and impertinent asides. At the beginning, such reviews were a blend of descriptive reports and theoretical asides, frequently not devoid of controversy. Frequently this soliloquy was peppered with incidental asides about the neighbour's dog, the mean man at the bus station and various other thinly veiled references to how hard her life was. The next three posts will be a detailed account of the lectures and the question-and-answer session, with comments about the audience and a few asides from me. An aside from this is that I once dated a girl who had this tiny, adorable little gap on her top row. The little asides about people are what make the book so memorable. The book offers good intentions, fascinating asides and digressions, and competent plot summary, along with textual analysis often marred by unsupported conjecture. These lengthy asides are the book's most consistent flaw. In other instances, the tangential asides and interruptions that characterize any conversation are more distracting than helpful. He wanders into pointless asides, conspiracy theories and even presumes to lecture the audience about its loyalty to Canada. He made dry asides to reporters at City Hall events, and freely distributed his pager number immediately after taking the oath. This is a fantastic, weird, warped and richly indulgent book, full of authorial asides and the occasional rant: it centres around ideas of politics, war and ritual. It contains many gems, some of which are asides about how books can be dangerous in unexpected ways. Phrases aside from Apart from. 除了 Example sentencesExamples His jovial manner and friendly approach sets him aside from all others that ever worked in town. It's a an exciting pageant of anniversaries this week, even aside from my own birthday. In fact, aside from the occasional pan of seafood, Jonathan is virtually vegetarian. I have been through emotional agony in almost every relationship with men, aside from my father and Robert. A full scale search was launched and thankfully she was found unharmed, aside from suffering from the cold. The real beauty of the play, aside from its razor-sharp comedy, is its persuasiveness. The good thing is, aside from some privacy, you don't have to hear a roommate's snore. The exhibit spans multiple rooms and displays many works aside from the pop art he is most famous for. I remember little of the evening aside from this fact, and am consequently suffering today. Anna was average looking, aside from her large ears that seemed to stick out a lot to her. Of the eight or so people who were in the room already, only one other kid aside from me was off alone. Nonetheless, it's there and it's giving me no trouble, aside from still being sore. The only thing they had in common, aside from playing music, was that they played it too loud. When he opened the wooden doors he was able to see one set of clothes set aside from the others. What conclusions can be drawn from this aside from that it is wise to get a full night of sleep? There may be little new here aside from his emphasis on long range planning over short term gains. The others detract, receive value or stand aside from the work of the first group. I don't use transport very often, aside from the occasional trip on one of London's tube trains. The three acre campsite was completely empty, aside from the one family. Yes, it's a tall building, but aside from that what would make it a notable target? Synonyms apart from, besides, in addition to, over and above, beyond, not counting, leaving aside, barring, other than, but, but for, excluding, not including, without, with the exception of, except, except for, excepting, omitting, leaving out, short of, save, save for take (or draw) someone aside Move someone away from a group of people in order to talk privately. 把…从人群中叫出来以私下谈话 Example sentencesExamples Then, just as he was preparing for his most significant challenge yet, the manager took him aside in August to inform him of an imminent signing. He started to approach my Mom as if he was going to take her aside and engage her in a private conversation, but he didn't get the chance. Once, when I kept shifting off my alto line back to the melody line over and over again, he took me aside after the rehearsal and whispered, ‘Sing the melody.’ The lovely person I was performing with took me aside afterwards and told me several things. For some reason, that scene wasn't entirely working in rehearsal, but Billy took Hayden aside and told him to play the scene as though he actually believed what he was saying. He took me aside after a few weeks and said he did not think I was a right-back and I had to agree with him. She took me aside and told me it was important that we stock his latest book prominantly in time for the holiday season. He drew Harry aside so they could speak privately. Otto then grabbed the little man by his collar and took him aside. I wanted to hurt the man for making my mother cry, but she took me aside as the group moved what they were carrying over to the side of the house. One day the warden actually took me aside and said he thought for my own mental welfare that I shouldn't stay there. His first day on campus, a counsellor took him aside, looked him in the eye and said: ‘Your kind never make it here.’ But when I took him aside that afternoon he confessed that his right side felt weak. That night, Thad took me aside, out into the alley behind the kitchen. I was coming out of a restaurant recently with my wife, and one of them took me aside and told me to be careful - he pointed out a guy nearby on a motorbike and said that he'd heard he planned to follow us. It was great to have some thanks and my boss took me aside to thank me for my contribution to achieving the targets. I frowned at her less than enthused reaction but before I could take her aside and call her on it she moved up to her oblivious family, politely greeting them with a false cheer that she obviously didn't feel. I couldn't really relax, but Wes took me aside and said, ‘Look, you're here.’ He took me aside and said, ‘John, would you trust me to do some things here that I think are necessary?’ I'm pleased because I did not know at the start of this season if the manager was going to bring in somebody else but he took me aside and told me and this only raised my confidence. Origin Middle English (originally on side): see a, side. adv..1 phr.
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