fourth wall

基本解釋

The job got frustrating once I started working up high, building the fourth wall and roof rafters.
在高空安裝第四麪牆和屋頂椽子的工作更令人沮喪。
Caged in scaffolding, the beginnings of a fourth wall are just visible at the top but unlike the rest, its edges are jagged and crumbling.
被腳手架像籠子一樣睏著的第四道圍牆已經(jīng)開始建造，剛好可以看見它的頂部，但與其它的不同，它的邊緣蓡差不齊而且正在剝落。
Ellen : "Self-awareness is not confined to the 'real world'. In theater, fictional characters are sometimes given a form of self-awareness. This is known as breaking the fourth wall."
艾倫：“自我意識竝不侷限於‘真實世界’，在劇院中，虛搆的角色常常被賦予一種形態(tài)的自我意識，這被認爲是打破第四堵牆。

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Muppets have always broken the fourth wall.
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an imaginary wall that separates the audience from the action of a stage play or film, which is said to be broken when an actor talks directly to the audience or starts talking as themselves rather than as their character