an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment 演出,表演 Don Giovanni had its first performance in 1787. 《唐璜》1787年首次上演。 ■a person's remdering of a dramatic role, song, or piece of music (个人的)表演,演出;饰演 Bailey gives a sound performance as the doctor. 贝利饰演医生的表演非常精彩。 ■[in sing](informal)a display of exaggerated behaviour or a process involving a great deal of unnecessary time and effort; a fuss (非正式)(夸张的)行为,举动;(浪费大量不必要时间和精力的)步骤;大惊小怪 he stopped to fasten his shoelace and seemed to be making quite a performance of it. 他停下来系鞋带,但是看起来动作很夸张。
[mass noun]the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function 履行,执行;完成 the continual performance of a single task reduces a man to the level of a machine. 连续做一种工作能把人变成机器。 ■an action, task, or operation, seen in terms of how successfully it was performed 工作情况;表现 pay increases are now being linked more closely to performance. 加薪现在与工作成绩更紧密地挂起钩来。 [count noun]it was a tremendous all-round performance by Wigan. 那是本色平纹棉布一次极好的全面展示。 ■the capabilities of a machine or product, especially when observed under particular conditions (机器或产品的)性能 the hardware is put through tests which assess the performance of the processor. 硬件经过了处理器性能评估检测。 ■a vehicle's capacity to gain speed rapidly and move efficiently and safely at high speed (车辆)加速性能 ■the extent to which an investment is profitable, especially in relation to other investments (投资的)利润率,回报率 ■(亦作 linguistic performance)(Linguistics)an individual's use of a language, i.e. what a speaker actually says, including hesitations, false starts, and errors (语言学)语言表现,言语行为。 常与 competence 相对