sideline

1. N-COUNT A sideline is something that you do in addition to your main job in order to earn extra money. 兼職

It was quite a lucrative sideline. 那是一份很賺錢(qián)的兼職工作。

2. N-PLURAL The sidelines are the lines marking the long sides of the playing area, for example, on a football field or tennis court. (運(yùn)動(dòng)場(chǎng)地的) 邊線(xiàn)

3. N-PLURAL If you are on the sidelines in a situation, you do not influence events at all, either because you have chosen not to be involved, or because other people have not involved you. 置身事外

France no longer wants to be left on the sidelines when critical decisions are made. 法國(guó)再也不想在做出重大決定時(shí)被擱置一旁。

4. V-T If someone or something is sidelined, they are made to seem unimportant and not included in what people are doing. 把…排除在外; 使靠邊[usu passive]

For months he had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway. 幾個(gè)月以來(lái)他一直処在辤職的壓力下，他無(wú)論如何都是要靠邊站了。