(figurative)The earlier protests had just been dress rehearsals for full-scale revolution.
早期的抗议仅仅是大革命开始前的预演。
牛津词典
These elections, you could almost say, are a dress rehearsal for the real elections.
你几乎可以说,这些选举是真正选举前的一次彩排。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
We did a dress rehearsal just before the real performance.
在正式演出之前,我们还有过一次预演.
期刊摘选
At a dress rehearsal the actors wear the clothes they will wear in the performance.
彩排时演员们都穿上正式演出时的服装.
期刊摘选
An American band is having a dress rehearsal for the closing ceremony at Rugby Seven.
在七人榄球赛上,一队从美国来的乐队在后台作最后练习,准备在闭幕时表演.
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This is not a dress rehearsal!
这不是一场时装秀!
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The audience behaved indecorously as if the concert were an informal dress rehearsal.
这些观众举止随便,仿佛这场音乐会是一场非正式的彩排.
辞典例句
At least one dress rehearsal should be performed in dark twilight.
至少应在晨昏时进行一项实际操作练习.
辞典例句
Many people live as if life were a dress rehearsal for some later date.
许多人的生活好像是某个未来日子的彩排.
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The dress rehearsal didn't go too well.
彩排进行得不太顺利.
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In this light of evolutionary time, ecology can be seen as one long dress rehearsal.
在大尺度时间的进化舞台上, 生态学可以看做一场漫长的带妆彩排.
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No dress rehearsal in our life, every day was a field pickup.
人生没有彩排, 每天都是现场直播.
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Today's practice at the rocket site was the dress rehearsal for tomorrow's launching.
今天火箭发射场上的演练是明天正式发射的彩排.
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All of us were invited to sit in on the dress rehearsal.
我们被一起请去观看彩排.
辞典例句
At the dress rehearsal she was disconsolate.
彩排时她闷闷不乐.
英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
The weakpoints of the play became apparent in dress rehearsal.
在彩排中,这出戏的不足之处才暴露出来.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
Many people live as if life were a dress rehearsal for some later date . It isn't.
许多人生活就像生活是件为以后某天准备的衣服.
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On one day just the dress rehearsal for the relay in Macao made the second lead.
有一天在澳门的彩排也成了新闻栏目排名第二的节目.
期刊摘选
Many people lives as if life is a dress rehearsal for some later date. It isn't.
许多人的生活好象是某个未来日子的彩排, 并非如此.
期刊摘选
It is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get it.
人生不是一次彩排, 今天是你唯一能把握的.
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The actors were metamorphosed into a living tapestry of color at the dress rehearsal.
带妆彩排的时候，演员们变幻出一幅活生生的锦绣画卷。
柯林斯例句
These elections, you could almost say, are a dress rehearsal for the real elections.
你几乎可以说，这些选举是真正选举前的一次彩排。
柯林斯例句