1.DLa separate small part of a fair or circus, where you pay to play games or watch a performance 〔游乐场或马戏团的〕穿插表演,助兴节目
2UNIMPORTANTan event that is much less important or serious than another one 次要事件,附带活动
The initial conflict was a mere sideshow compared with the World War that followed.
最初的冲突同随后发生的世界大战相比,只是次要事件。
Examples from the Corpus
sideshow• There is even a sideshow where a large gilt stupa rotates on an electricmotor.• In a way, the presidentialrace is a sideshow to the realstruggle for power in Washington.• He told me back then that the open spacebond was a sideshow.• No longer can Labor and the Likud be seen as the only parties that matter, and the rest as sideshows.• They were heavily barred and on wheels, somewhere between a luggagetrolley and a circus sideshow.• And the struggle is more than a meresideshow on the right.• We saw a movie by Herzog that concluded with a chicken in a Midwestsideshow that played tic-tac-toe.• To be sure, even the great ConstitutionalConvention had its own sideshows.