English Dictionary

noises off

名詞

複数形 複数形のみ 広義

(theater) Sound effects produced offstage. / (by extension) Something occurring on the margins or periphery of a given event, situation etc.

日本語の意味

(劇場用語) 舞台の外で作られる効果音。 / (拡張的意味) ある出来事や状況の主要部分ではなく、周辺または副次的な側面で発生する現象・出来事。

The noises off were cued to suggest a bustling street beyond the set.

舞台袖の効果音は、セットの向こうにある賑やかな通りを想像させるように合図されました。

意味（1）

(theater) Sound effects produced offstage.

A separate section is given to this subject because as a rule the importance of noises off is badly underestimated in the amateur theatre.

意味（2）

(by extension) Something occurring on the margins or periphery of a given event, situation etc.

The political situation after the Year V elections developed into a war of position between rival factions, with muffled insurrectionary noises off supplied by bellicose neo-Jacobins and sabre-rattling royalists.