fourth wall

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play. idiomatic
    — This is a flat, unnecessary, and strangely disturbing denial of the fourth-wall convention, that unwritten agreement between playwright and playgoer whereby you think of yourself at the theatre as a privileged, exonerated, comfortably seated eavesdropper.
  2. The boundary between the fiction and the audience. broadly
    — Even though you, the author, may be maintaining a fourth wall between your characters and your readers, he, the narrator, is not keeping that fourth wall between himself and the audience he thinks he's telling the story to.

词形变化

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词源

A reference to the three walls of a box set, with the fourth wall being the imaginary wall separating the performers from the audience. Coined by philosopher and art critic Denis Diderot in 1758 and thus a calque of French quatrième mur.
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