单词 | the scene opens |
释义 | > as lemmasthe scene opens P2. the scene opens and variants [compare French ouvrir la scène (1690)] : (in early use) the stage setting is revealed; (later more generally) the action begins.Originally used literally, and chiefly in stage directions, with reference to the opening of a curtain or screen concealing or forming part of the scenery of a play; in later use influenced by sense 2a and open v. 17b. ΚΠ 1623 B. Jonson Time Vindicated sig. B2 (stage direct.) Loud Mvsiqve. To which the whole Scene opens, where Saturne sitting with Venus is discouer'd aboue. 1673 E. Settle Empress of Morocco i. 1 (stage direct.) Scene opens, Muly Labas appears bound in Chains. 1693 T. Rymer Short View Trag. sig. B7v The Scene opening presents 15 Grandees of Spain. 1767 A. Campbell Sale of Authors iii. 165 (stage direct.) Scene opens, Apollo, Booksellers, &c. at Table, with Wine, &c. before them. 1865 A. Thomas On Guard I. ii The first scene opened on a somnorific, sultry summer afternoon in London. 1877 W. W. Fowler Woman on Amer. Frontier x. 224 The scene opens with a view of three white-tilted Conestoga wagons..each drawn by four pair of oxen rumbling along through a plain. 1938 Times 24 June 14/2 The first scene..opened with villagers..watching their children playing ‘Hot Cockles’. 1979 R. McMillan All in Good Faith ii. i. 53 (stage direct.) The scene opens in the middle of a crowded party; everyone is well-oiled. 2002 M. Cousins Scene by Scene 45/1 The scene opens as Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Lemmon), dressed in 1920s fashion as Josephine and Daphne, board the train to Florida. < as lemmas |
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