stage
英 [steɪdʒ]
美[stedʒ]
	    - n. 阶段;舞台;戏剧;驿站
 - vt. 举行;上演;筹划
 - vi. 举行;适于上演;乘驿车旅行
 - n. (Stage)人名;(英)斯特奇
 
英英释意
- 1. any distinct time period in a sequence of events;
 - "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"
 
- 2. a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process;
 - "a remarkable degree of frankness"
 - "at what stage are the social sciences?"
 
- 3. a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience;
 - "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box"
 
- 4. the theater as a profession (usually `the stage');
 - "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"
 
- 5. any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something;
 - "All the world's a stage"--Shakespeare
 - "it set the stage for peaceful negotiations"
 
- 6. a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns;
 - "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles"
 
- 7. a section or portion of a journey or course;
 - "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
 
- 8. a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination