英语词汇extras的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

extras. People who appear in stage and movie crowd scenes or background scenes have been called “extras” since 1772 on the English stage. These actors have no lines as bit players do. As early as 1912 the Italian film Quo Vadis had a cast of thousands—most of them extras—for verisimilitude. Extras have been around since the earliest days of movies, but never so many as played in Gandhi, which won the Academy Award as best picture in 1982. In the funeral scene of Gandhi close to 300,000 extras appeared.

词汇	extras
词源	extras. People who appear in stage and movie crowd scenes or background scenes have been called “extras” since 1772 on the English stage. These actors have no lines as bit players do. As early as 1912 the Italian film Quo Vadis had a cast of thousands—most of them extras—for verisimilitude. Extras have been around since the earliest days of movies, but never so many as played in Gandhi, which won the Academy Award as best picture in 1982. In the funeral scene of Gandhi close to 300,000 extras appeared.
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