英语词汇“to lay the scene”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. to lay the (also one's) scene: to establish the background, setting, or context for a play, story, account, etc.; (also figurative) to create the necessary conditions for a future event, action, etc. (cf. lay v.¹ 20b). Cf. to set the scene at Phrases 9.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (intransitive)] > locate a scene

to lay the (also one's) scene1597

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet Prol. 2 In faire Verona, where we lay our Scene .

1648 T. Stephens tr. Statius Thebais ii. 52 These creepe the neerest way, by paths unseen, Through shrubs, and crosse the woods: Then lay their scene For villany.

a1749 S. Boyse New Pantheon (1753) x. 22 This Engagement is differently related by Authors..some Writers laying the Scene in Italy..others in Greece.

1825 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 1/2 In a recent performance.., where the scene is laid in the reign of George II, John Duke of Argyll..is by a strange and peculiar felicity of retroposition, attired in the Vandyke dress of the time of Charles I.

1939 H. W. Wells Elizabethan & Jacobean Playwrights ii. 35 The playwright lays his scene in no particular city or period of history.

2010 Independent (Nexis) 3 Apr. 48 The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, which laid the scene for the American Civil War by setting out the arguments over slavery and the rights of black people.

单词	to lay the scene
释义	> as lemmas to lay the (also one's) scene P1. to lay the (also one's) scene: to establish the background, setting, or context for a play, story, account, etc.; (also figurative) to create the necessary conditions for a future event, action, etc. (cf. lay v.¹ 20b). Cf. to set the scene at Phrases 9. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (intransitive)] > locate a scene to lay the (also one's) scene1597 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet Prol. 2 In faire Verona, where we lay our Scene . View more context for this quotation 1648 T. Stephens tr. Statius Thebais ii. 52 These creepe the neerest way, by paths unseen, Through shrubs, and crosse the woods: Then lay their scene For villany. a1749 S. Boyse New Pantheon (1753) x. 22 This Engagement is differently related by Authors..some Writers laying the Scene in Italy..others in Greece. 1825 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 1/2 In a recent performance.., where the scene is laid in the reign of George II, John Duke of Argyll..is by a strange and peculiar felicity of retroposition, attired in the Vandyke dress of the time of Charles I. 1939 H. W. Wells Elizabethan & Jacobean Playwrights ii. 35 The playwright lays his scene in no particular city or period of history. 2010 Independent (Nexis) 3 Apr. 48 The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, which laid the scene for the American Civil War by setting out the arguments over slavery and the rights of black people. extracted from scenen. < as lemmas
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