A new report has turned the spotlight on the problem of poverty in the inner cities.
一篇新的报道将媒体的关注点引向了旧城区的贫困问题。
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the spotlight• The glare of the media spotlight has made it very difficult for Dr. Ho to do his work.
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spotlight• The only option may be a singlemercuryvapour or metal halide spotlight, with no option for extra support lighting.• The winners in 1992,1980,1976 and 1968 were unencumbered by political duties as federal officeholders in the nationalspotlight.• Let the eyes hold the spotlight and keep lipsmuted with softpink or peach.• His blue eyes shimmer in the spotlights.• Johnson stepped into the spotlight to make his speech.• Suddenly, Stairway to Paradise is echoing through the theatre and I am stepping into the spotlightslidingfaster and faster.• Vaught likes the spotlight as much any other person.• Tatum had stayed out of the spotlight to bring up their three children Kevin, six, Sean, five and one-year-old Emily.• At last Nahat was up against the backdrop with the spotlightbreathing down his neck.
in/into the spotlight• The fact that the shadoweconomy is coming into the spotlight of open publicity is encouraging.• It gives us a chance to be more in the spotlight.• Phase 1 puts exploration and productionin the spotlight.• His blue eyes shimmer in the spotlights.• Just one loneancestor standing in the spotlight without anyone or anything else the currentgeneration can blame.• Once Raymo saw a slender man standing in the spotlight in front of the sandbags.• Suddenly, Stairway to Paradise is echoing through the theatre and I am stepping into the spotlight sliding faster and faster.• Politicians, uncomfortablein the spotlight, publicly back some sort of reformpackage that might take away a few of their perks.
spotlight2 verb (past tensepst and past participleppspotlighted or spotlit) [transitiveT]
1ATTENTIONto direct attention to someone or something 使显眼,使突出,使受注意SYN highlight
The article spotlights the problems of the homeless.
文章专门探讨了无家可归者的种种问题。
2SHINEto shine a strong beam of light on something 将聚光灯射向〔某物〕,聚光照明