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- In drama, a speech directed to the audience that supposedly is not audible to the other characters onstage at the time. When Hamlet first appears onstage, for example, his aside "A little more than kin, and less than kind!" gives the audience a strong sense of his alienation from King Claudius. Bedford/St. Martin's
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- In order to highlight Palaestrio’s craftiness, Plautus has Periplectomenus in a long aside describe the slave's planning while the actor playing the slave mimes intense deliberation - Brooklyn College by
- What does not occur very often in Faust, though, are true asides, and most particularly those comical remarks which would normally produce a laugh in the audience. - Nancy Thuleen by
- Rene would regularly explain his ongoing predicament at the start, and make asides at the Audience regarding other people's leading statements. - tvtropes.org by
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- APARTÉU, aparteuri, s.n. Scurt monolog rostit cu glas scăzut de un actor pe scenă, ca pentru sine, în așa fel încât să fie auzit numai de spectatori, nu și de partenerii aflați pe scenă. - Din fr. aparté. Resurse lingvistice pentru limba român� - by Andrei Albu
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- În concurenţa (dacă nu vrem să spunem duelul) dintre cei doi Caragiale, meritul fiului e cu atât mai mare cu cât opera lui nu e o contraparte a celei a tatălui decât prin factură (el posedând geniul de tip narativ şi evocator, în timp ce Ion Luca era prin excelenţă un dramaturg care-şi transforma majoritatea performanţelor prozatorice în dialoguri comentate şi prezentate cu unele aparteuri), inspiraţia lui Mateiu se întinde şi pe un vast teritoriu pe care călcase şi tatăl său, un ins detestabil care putea fi evocat cu maliţie ca un personaj evident negativ. - Revista Luceafărul by Andrei Albu
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- 旁白,或称旁述,可以指旁白人所说的内容,也可以指旁白其本人。属于电影、电视、录影的后期制作,通常由配音演员或其中演员在影片中配上解说,与人物对白及剧情配乐不同,但大家都是为该影片增值。旁白是画外音,一般旁白不需要出镜,即使某位演员为戏中角色讲解,其讲解的环境与片段中的环境也是不同的。 Wikipedia - by GeoGenesis
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- Those asides, which the characters deliver to the audience, do not really suit the screen.
角色對觀眾的那些旁白實際上不適合於拍成電影。 - Yahoo Dictionary by GeoGenesis
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