释义
If you throw the spotlight on something, you make it draw public attention.
例句
Hamas' objective was to throw the spotlight on the government's inability to control the situation while at the same time portraying itself as the true power in Palestinian.
GRE
The lionization of Vladimir Nabokov as one of North America's literary giants has thrown the spotlight on his peripheral activities and has thus served to foreground his efforts as an amateur entomologist.
Vladimir Nabokov是一位北美文学巨匠，对于Vladimir Nabokov的神化让他生活的各个角落都受到大众关注，这种关注让他想成为昆虫学者的努力也广为人知。