| 单词 | discovery scene |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdiscovery scene discovery scene n. a scene (in a play, etc.) in which a revelation or disclosure takes place, esp. one which leads to the denouement (cf. sense 2d). ΚΠ 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic iii. i. 80 What, gentlemen, do you mean to go at once to the discovery scene? 1825 Morning Chron. 30 July Miss Glover acquitted herself, in the discovery scene, with much pathos. 1939 H. D. F. Kitto Greek Trag. vii. 152 In the two great discovery scenes of the Tyrannus, the situation is not presented practically complete before our eyes. 1997 C. M. McLay in F. H. Londré Love's Labour's Lost: Crit. Ess. 217 It is not until the discovery scene of Act IV..that Berowne discovers that what men frequently call wisdom is, in reality, folly. < as lemmas |
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