FAMOUSa situation in which someone receives a lot of attention, especially from newspapers, television etc 公众〔尤指报纸、电视等〕关注的中心
in/out of the limelight
Tad loves being in the limelight.
塔德喜欢成为公众关注的焦点。
The president’s wife wanted to stay out of the limelight.
总统夫人想避免引人注目。
She’s afraid this new actor will steal the limelight from her.
她担心这位新演员会抢去她的风头。
his few moments of limelight in front of the cameras
他为数不多的几次成为镜头焦点的时刻
Examples from the Corpus
limelight• Nader is relishing the leverage and the limelight.• He gave the Bruins another scorer, more size, more rebounding, and the actor in him enjoyed the limelight.• The force is rightly stepping back from the limelight.• You're presenting a message, not hogging the limelight!• The city a secure armed camp, Daley was enjoying himself and the glow of the limelight.• Otherwise, staff members can feel they are doing all the real work while the boss is usurping the limelight.• Do you feel a bitdisappointed that they've come along and perhaps stolen your limelight?
in/out of the limelight• Lockedout of the limelight, the triohunkered down in a recording studio.• By 1974, Devlin was out of Parliament but not out of the limelight.
Originlimelight
(1800-1900) → LIME12 + light; because originally the light was produced by burning lime
VERB + LIMELIGHT | PREPOSITIONVERB + LIMELIGHT➤grab, hog, steal搶風頭◇She accused her co-star of trying to hog the limelight.她指責合演的明星企圖搶風頭。➤enjoy是公眾關注的焦點➤seek尋求公眾關注◇He was never a man to seek the limelight.他從來就不是愛出風頭的人。➤avoid, shun避免引人注目▸➤share同樣受到公眾的關注PREPOSITION➤into the limelight受到公眾關注◇an ordinary person who was suddenly thrust into the limelight突然受到眾人矚目的普通人➤in the limelight受人注目◇She likes being in the limelight.她喜歡受人關注。➤out of the limelight不受人注目◇The band started touring again after two years out of the limelight.沉寂兩年之後,這個樂隊又開始了巡迴演出。