Stage

(noun.) a section or portion of a journey or course; 'then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise'.

(noun.) a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; 'he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box'.

(noun.) a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination.

(noun.) the theater as a profession (usually `the stage'); 'an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage'.

(noun.) any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; 'All the world's a stage'--Shakespeare; 'it set the stage for peaceful negotiations'.

(verb.) plan, organize, and carry out (an event); 'the neighboring tribe staged an invasion'.

(verb.) perform (a play), especially on a stage; 'we are going to stage `Othello''.

校对:马特

• Any open reference to the question, on my part, would have been premature at this early stage of our reconciliation. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• After all, I have played my part to the best of my ability on this life's stage, but Fate has been too strong for me. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• We say in our argument that a return to the days of the stage-coach is impossible or that you cannot turn back the hands of the clock. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Is appealed to, at the fish stage of the banquet, by Veneering, on the disputed question whether his cousin Lord Snigsworth is in or out of town? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Davoust and Massena, who wrought in many a battle tragedy, are here, and so also is Rachel, of equal renown in mimic tragedy on the stage. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Edison himself began at that point, and his note-books show that he made various experiments with this type of lamp at a very early stage. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This second comfort came on the stage in the course of the evening. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Even in 1847 few of these things had lost their novelty, most of them were in the earlier stages of development. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I will assume that we possess (what we have certainly not got) money enough to carry this inquiry on through all its stages. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• At last he began to pay me in halfpence at a time; and was full two hours getting by easy stages to a shilling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The production of coal gas, and the development of its properties at different stages of distillation, may be readily shown by means of a common tobacco pipe. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Sometimes it is only the earlier developmental stages which fail. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The individual develops, but his proper development consists in repeating in orderly stages the past evolution of animal life and human history. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Through all his stages, Mr. Jaggers followed him with the same strange interest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• When all was completed the great staging was removed, and the mighty tube rested alone and secure upon its massive wedge-faced piers rising from the bedrock of the flood below. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The silent drama, however, calls also for many representations which employ conventional acting, staging, and the varied appliances of stagecraft. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

校对:克劳斯