command performance

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dramatic, musical, or similar entertainment performed before a monarch or other head of state, especially in a circumstance where that ruler has requested or ordered the performance. archaic
    — "I've been giving a ‘command’ performance for the president," explained the actor modestly.
  2. A task, activity, or other assignment which one undertakes in order to satisfy someone in authority, such as an employer. broadly,idiomatic
    — Some big client of Arthur's is coming to town, and Sally is supposed to entertain the man's wife. She says it's a command performance.

词形变化

command performances plural
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