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单词 scene
释义

scene

/siːn /
noun
1The place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred: the emergency team were among the first on the scene relatives left floral tributes at the scene of the crash...
  • They were the first people on the scene after the incident.
  • The emergency services were quickly on the scene including a special incident unit from the fire brigade.
  • The equipment will therefore be used at the scene of any major incident, such as road or rail crashes involving many injured people.

Synonyms

location, site, place, position, point, spot;
locale, whereabouts;
arena, stage, set
technical locus
1.1A place or setting regarded as having a particular character or making a particular impression: a scene of carnage...
  • The town centre is a scene of devastation, with the city theatre and other buildings burned out.
  • After fully examining the scene of utter chaos, Dizante came over to us and sat down as well.
  • Several lorries then ploughed into the wreckage as the motorway was turned into a scene of chaos as cars and lorries collided with each other.
1.2A landscape: thick snow had turned the scene outside into a picture postcard...
  • He specialises in watercolours - finely-observed landscapes and street scenes in soft, pastel colours.
  • Locals will recognise street scenes from Tralee and landscapes from various local beauty spots.
  • The posters depicted rolling stock, landscapes and other scenes including Blackpool, the Garrick Theatre in Southport and Brixham harbour in south Devon.

Synonyms

view, vista, outlook, panorama, prospect, sight;
landscape, scenery;
picture, tableau, spectacle
1.3An incident of a specified nature: there had already been some scenes of violence...
  • It was a vote which lead to shocking scenes of ethnic violence against a tropical, picture-postcard island backdrop.
  • He's trying to come to terms with the barbarity of the attack and is concerned that such scenes of violence are becoming more prevalent in cities.
  • Thus we get images of dollar bills followed by cheering crowds, or scenes of violence matched with screenshots of video games.

Synonyms

incident, event, episode, happening, moment
1.4A representation of an incident, or the incident itself: scenes of 1930s America...
  • A nativity scene was set up beneath it.
  • So this picture records for posterity a scene of village life that has been lost forever.
  • The county is to build a park where the scene of 180 million years ago, when dinosaurs lived freely, will be recreated.
1.5 [with adjective or noun modifier] A specified area of activity or interest: one of the biggest draws on the Irish music scene...
  • The people he did business with were seriously linked to the Bay Area party scene in some way.
  • Suddenly we are surrounded with reminders of just how interesting the post-punk musical scene was.
  • We live a pretty low-key life - the party scene does not interest us.

Synonyms

area of interest, field of interest, field, interest, speciality, territory, province, preserve;
sphere, world, milieu, realm, domain
informal thing
1.6 (usually the scene) informal A social environment frequented predominantly by homosexuals: I don’t go out into the scene now
1.7 [usually in singular] A public display of emotion or anger: she was loath to make a scene in the office...
  • She didn't do anything as she didn't want to make a scene in front of the media, shattering her public image.
  • If you have to complain write to the airline and don't make a scene at the counter…
  • Our guide encourages us not to make a scene, but rather to pay the money and forget about it.

Synonyms

fuss, exhibition of oneself, performance, tantrum, outburst, commotion, disturbance, row, upset, contretemps, furore, brouhaha
informal song and dance, to-do
British informal carry-on
2A sequence of continuous action in a play, film, opera, or book: a scene from Tarantino’s latest movie...
  • I sat aghast as I watched the worst sex scenes ever filmed with some of the ugliest camera-work that I have ever seen.
  • The fight sequences and the main scenes have been filmed and only the songs are yet to be shot.
  • The cameraman would film the scene and take the shot back to the laboratory to check it and then he would re-shoot it again.

Synonyms

section, segment, part, clip, sequence
2.1A subdivision of an act of a play in which the time is continuous and the setting fixed and which does not usually involve a change of characters: beginning at Act One, Scene One...
  • There was only really one fault with this production, the change from scene three to four.

Synonyms

subdivision, division, section, segment
2.2 [mass noun, usually as modifier] The pieces of scenery used in a play or opera: scene changes...
  • Students learn about the Adler technique, voice and speech, movement, scene study and Shakespeare.
  • Schimmelpfennig's script offers no scene descriptions or stage directions, only dialogue.
  • Indeed, innovation in scene painting is associated with Sophocles, albeit in a passage of Aristotle which may be interpolated.

Phrases

behind the scenes

change of scene

come (or appear or arrive) on the scene

hit (or make) the scene

not one's scene

set the scene

Origin

Mid 16th century (denoting a subdivision of a play, or (a piece of) stage scenery): from Latin scena, from Greek skēnē 'tent, stage'.

  • The scenes in behind the scenes, ‘in private’, are the pieces of scenery on a theatre stage. This reflects the origin of scene, which is ultimately from Greek skēnē ‘tent, stage’, source also of scenario (late 19th century), scenery (mid 18th century), and scenic (mid 17th century). The theatrical associations of scene gave us the meaning ‘a public display of emotion or anger’, which is from the middle of the 18th century.

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