fourth wall

短语

第四堵墙

发音

AU

词形变化

fourth walls 复数

别名

fourth-wall 4th wall

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    第四面墙

    习语
  2. 2.

    The boundary between the fiction and the audience.

    第四面墙

    引申义

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.

来源：wiktionary