back-drop

基本解释

Elmer: Yes, it was very atmospheric. The top deck was great back-drop for the wedding photos.
埃尔默﹕不错，很有气氛。上甲板做结婚照片的背景，也真妙。
On the television evening news, reporters mouthed the latest grim statistic against a back- drop of mean streets and smoking buildings.
晚间电视新闻上，记者站在破旧的街道和冒烟的房屋前面报导着令人心寒的最新统计数字。
The openness of the garden is somewhat balanced by a sense of enclosure and privacy from the elongated concrete mass, It is a visual buffer and back-drop for the garden and the community.
通过墙体的围合以及延长的混凝土体量形成的私密感使得花园的开放度得到控制。这里，是一处花园同社区的视觉上的缓冲。

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A backdrop is a large piece of cloth, often with scenery painted on it, that is hung at the back of a stage while a play is being performed.
The backdrop to an object or a scene is what you see behind it.
The backdrop to an event is the general situation in which it happens.