台上 (臺上)
tái shàng
Pinyin
Definition
台上 (臺上)
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- on stage
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一哭二闹三上吊
- 1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)
- 2 to throw a tantrum
一条绳上的蚂蚱
- 1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)
- 2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse
- 3 people who will sink or swim together
三天不打,上房揭瓦
- 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
- 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
上一次当,学一次乖
- 1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
- 2 once bitten, twice shy
上下其手
- 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
- 2 fig. conspiring to defraud
Sample Sentences
老实说,台上的人在唱什么我一个字也听不懂。不过还好我读过”牡丹亭“。
To be honest, I couldn't understand a word they sang on stage. But luckily I have read The Peony Pavilion before.
我知道啊,有香港的栋笃笑,还有那个所谓的海派清口。切,周立波在台上还得看稿子呢,完全不在一个档次,说的也都是网络笑话。那个黄子华的栋笃笑听说不错,但也只能在粤语地区流行。
I know. There's Cantonese stand-up and that so-called pure Shangainese-style stand-up. Bah, Zhou Libo reads from a script on stage and his jokes are all taken from the internet; he's not even in the same class. I've heard Huang Zihua's Cantonese stand-up comedy is great, but it's only popular in Cantonese-speaking areas.