Green room

    演员休息室

    这个短语的字面解释是“绿房间”，这是什么意思呢？请看对话：

    A: I got the singer's autography on my CD cover!

    B: How?

    A: I pretended to be a delivery guy sending him the soup he ordered and met him in the green room.

    Note: In show business, the green room is the space in a theater or similar venue that functions as a waiting room and lounge for performers before and after a performance, and during the show when they are not engaged on stage. The specific origin of the term is lost to history, which has led to many imaginative theories and claims. One story is that London's Blackfriars Theater (1599) included a room behind the scenes, which happened to be painted green; here the actors waited to go on stage. It's said that the room was originally painted green to relieve the eyes from the glare of the stage. The modern "green room" is usually not green at all.