| 单词 | to shift the scene |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto shift the scene 5. The place in which some or all of the action of a dramatic work is supposed to occur; the location or setting of a play, opera, novel, etc. Frequently in to change the scene, to shift the scene. Cf. to lay the (also one's) scene at Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > setting or locality of play scene1592 stage-room1642 stagea1649 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (intransitive)] > locate a scene > change scene to shift the scenea1616 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iv. sig. K2v Well doon Balthazar, hang vp the title. Our scene is Rhodes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. 0. 42 Vnto Southampton do we shift our Scene . View more context for this quotation 1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 43 He has remov'd the Scene in the same Act, from Rome to Catiline's Army, and from thence again to Rome. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 357. ¶7 Asia, Africk, and Europe are the several Scenes of his [sc. Virgil's] Fable. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. Observ. 157 The Scene is now remov'd from Ithaca to Pylos. 1835 Court Mag. July 29/1 Lord Byron..compliments Rousseau on the taste and judgment he has displayed in selecting the scene of the ‘Nouvelle Heloise’. 1908 E. F. Knight Over-sea Brit. 276 It is supposed that Shakespeare, who wrote The Tempest in 1611, had the scene for his play suggested to him by the published description of Sir George Somers' disaster. 1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Oct. 810/5 The vocal perspective is ingeniously varied to suggest the changing scene, but the fortissimo passages are occasionally marred by post-echo. 2011 Jrnl. Irish Stud. 26 26 When the scene of the novel moves to England, O'Donnel again has to witness the hollowness of English ‘bon ton’. < as lemmas |
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