| 词汇 | ring down the curtain (on), to |
| 释义 | ring down (or up) the curtainmark the end (or the beginning) of an enterprise or event.The reference here is to the ringing of a bell in a theatre as the signal to raise or lower the stage curtain at the beginning or end of a performance. Compare with bring down the curtain on (at curtain). ring down the curtain To end a performance, event, or action. ring down the curtain (on), toTo bring something to a conclusion. In the nineteenth-century theater a bell rung backstage was often used as a signal to lower the curtain, signifying the end of a scene or act. Thackeray recorded it thus (The End of the Play): “The play is done, the curtain drops, slow falling to the prompter’s bell.” It was transferred to other kinds of ending by the early twentieth century. |
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