back-drop

基本解釋

Elmer: Yes, it was very atmospheric. The top deck was great back-drop for the wedding photos.
埃爾默﹕不錯，很有氣氛。上甲板做結(jié)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.
晚間電視新聞上，記者站在破舊的街道和冒煙的房屋前面報導(dǎo)著令人心寒的最新統(tǒng)計數(shù)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.
通過墻體的圍合以及延長的混凝土體量形成的私密感使得花園的開放度得到控制。這里，是一處花園同社區(qū)的視覺上的緩沖。

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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.