backstairs

英式音标：[ˈbæksteəz]

美式音标：[ˈbæksterz]

词汇分类：Word Menu

概况：

adj. 诡秘的，秘密的

n. 厨房门；后面楼梯

词义：

n.

后楼梯，侧面楼梯；

英英释义

backstairs[ ,bæk'stεə(z) ]

n.a second staircase at the rear of a building

adj.secret and sly or sordid

"backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"; "backstairs intimacies"

同义词：backstairfurtive

用法：

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

He met the congressmen in secret to exert backstairs influence.
他秘密会见了议员,暗中对他施加影响。

He has got the post, but he got it by backstairs influence.
他得到了那个职位，但他是用不正当的手段得到的。

用作名词(n.)

They padded down the backstairs.
他们沿着后面楼梯走下来。

权威例句

Backstairs

Backstairs Passage Glacier

Backstairs at the White House (Miniseries)

My thirty years backstairs at the White House

The backstairs dragon : a life of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford

A Backstairs to a Degree: Demands for an Open University in Late Victorian England by Stuart Marriott

Extracellular DNA in Helicobacter pylori biofilm: a backstairs rumour

The Type Section of the Cambrian Backstairs Passage Formation, Kanmantoo Group, South Australia

Marine mammals of Gulf St Vincent, Investigator Strait and Backstairs Passage

Oxygen isotopic composition of ice samples from the Hells Gate and Backstairs Passage Ice Shelves (Victoria Land, Antarctica): evide...

同义词：underground,secret,inside,chamber,cabinet

英语词源：

backstairs

"stairs at the back of a structure," 1650s, from back (adj.) + stairs (see stair). Figurative use is attested earlier (1640s).

造句：

1. The Backstairs Battle for White House Influence

白宫幕僚的权势角逐

-- 来源 -- 名作英译部分 - P_baigongmuliaojiaozhu

2. backstairs gossip; his low backstairs cunning- A.L.Guerard; backstairs intimacies; furtive behavior.

暗中的流言；他的低级诡秘的狡诈-A.L.奎尔德；私通；鬼鬼祟祟的行为。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

3. backstairs gossip.

暗中的流言

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

4. He has got the post, but he got it by backstairs influence.

他得到了那个职位，但他是用不正当的手段得到的。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

5. I am surrounded by difficulties, by... intrigues, by... backstairs influence, by...

我面临的是重重困难，是……各种阴谋诡计，是……幕后操纵，是……

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

6. Some of us backstairs crowd thought he was callous about Missy.

我们当中的一些仆人认为，他对米丝太无情。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

7. Jefferson was accused of relying on an "invisible, inscrutable" group of associates that engaged in "backstairs

美国历届总统的幕僚之间，几乎都发生过一些纠葛。 早在托马斯 - 杰弗逊任总统时期，就曾有人指责他依靠一帮“看不见、摸不透”、专搞“幕后活动”的幕僚。

-- 来源 -- 名作英译部分 - P_baigongmuliaojiaozhu