stand-in n. 替身演员, 替身, 有利地位
stand-in[ noun ]
someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
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the star had a stand-in for dangerous sceneswe need extra employees for summer fill-ins
- A once expressive actress - remember Polanski's Repulsion? - is now cast forever as the First Lady of French cinema. If Hollywood had a star as inanimate as this, they would consign her to stand-in work for the Columbia torch lady.
- This summer, however, he joined the Bush campaign as a top adviser and served as the Michael Dukakis stand-in during Bush's practice sessions before his two debates with the Democratic challenger.
- He served as the stand-in for Democrat Michael Dukakis during Bush's practice sessions for his two debates.
- But suddenly, as a stand-in for the company's vacationing controller, he was roped into the deliberations of Texaco's Financial Policy Advisory Committee, which had urgent business indeed.
- Marla Kell Brown, the show's 27-year-old producer, acts as a stand-in for white Middle America as Mr. Hall flies through the show.
- Conyers, who also is black and a leader of the civil rights cause in the House, was viewed as a strong stand-in for the Michigan senators.
- A man jailed on a murder charge in Oklahoma will be represented by a stand-in Saturday on the Oregon Lottery's televised game show, officials said Wednesday.
- It (or another company) would get compensated for providing stand-in services, although whether by affected customers, some bonding arrangement or insurance is open for debate. Competition and Choice in the Gas Market.
- He has been closeted with top advisers at an undisclosed location in the Washington area boning up on the issues and conducting mock debates with Bentsen's stand-in, Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore.
- Even so, Ryrie would be an ideal stand-in until a more politically correct figure can be found.
- The director couldn't resist creating a stand-in for himself in front of the camera, a lovely young French woman who appears at the party in the guise of a documentary film maker making a movie about women and food.
- "Ah, Wilderness!" centers on the Miller family, particularly the 17-year-old son Richard, a stand-in for the playwright.
- She proved to be a personable stand-in for her husband, and McCrery found it difficult to campaign against her face-to-face.
- Charles Kennedy, the Liberal Democrat president and stand-in presenter on radio's 'Start the week', is another MP who sometimes seems to be in the wrong business. Will the prattling party now be joined by Labour's Bryan Gould?
- As the party grew, jazz and fireworks heralded the arrival of a costumed stand-in for Rex, the King of Carnival, who disembarked from a Coast Guard cutter at the Riverwalk shopping mall on the Mississippi River just outside the Quarter.
- So Geoff Martin, the temporary stand-in, must rate his chances.
- Bush is running on his experience in foreign affairs, from his days as United Nations ambassador, envoy to China and director of central intelligence to his globe-trotting duties of the past seven years as a stand-in for President Reagan.