Behind the scenes

Definition

scene /si:n/ n ၁။ [C usu sing ] အခင္းျဖစ္ရာ။ ျဖစ္ပြားရာေနရာ။ the scene of the accident/ crime/ battle ❍ Police reached the scene too late to prevent a riot. ❍ Reporters arrived/ were on the scene (ie at the place) soon after the bomb exploded. ၂။ [C] တကယ့္ျဖစ္ရပ္။ အျဖစ္အပ်က္။ ျဖစ္ေထြ။ ျဖစ္အင္။ the horrific scene(s) after the earthquake ❍ There were scenes of violence in the capital today. ၃။ [C usu sing ] (ေဒါသ)ေပါက္ကြဲမႈ။ ဗ႐ုန္းဗရင္းျဖစ္ျခင္း။ ဆူဆူ ညံညံ။ make a scene ❍ There was quite a scene when she refused to pay. ၄။ [C] ႐ႈခင္း။ a delightful rural scene ❍ gazing in amazement at the scene before them ❍ They went abroad for a change of scene. အေျပာင္းအလဲ ျဖစ္ေစရန္ သူတို႔ ႏိုင္ငံျခားသို႔ခရီးတစ္ေခါက္ ထြက္လိုက္ၾကသည္။ ၅။ [C] ႐ႈခင္းပံု။ ႐ႈခင္း။ scenes of Venice ❍ He paints woodland scenes. ၆။ [C] (က) (usu sing ) ဇာတ္လမ္းအရ ျပကြက္ အခင္းအက်င္း။ The scene is set in Normandy. (ခ) ဇာတ္စင္ေနာက္ခံကား။ The scenes are changed during the interval. ၇။ [C] (က) (႐ုပ္ရွင္၊ ျပဇာတ္၌) ျပကြင္းျပကြက္ တစ္ရပ္။ …ခန္း။ a nude/ sex/ love scene ❍ The scene in the hospital was very moving. (ခ) ဇာတ္လမ္း၏ အခန္း တစ္ခန္းမွ က႑တစ္ရပ္။ ျပကြက္။ Act 1, Scene 2 of ‘Macbeth’ ❍ the duel scene in ‘Hamlet’. ၈။ the scene [sing] (esp after a n ) ( infml ) မ်က္ေမွာက္ျမင္ကြင္း။ (အလုပ္ စသည္)ခြင္။ the music/ folk scene ❍ a newcomer on the fashion scene ❍ the political scene ❍ After years at the top, she simply vanished from the scene. ❏ behind the scenes [ IDM ] ၁။ ပရိသတ္မ်က္ကြယ္၌။ ၂။ တိတ္တိတ္ပုန္း။ ကြယ္ရာက။ political deals done behind the scenes. ❏ not one's scene [ IDM ] ( infml ) မိမိေမြ႕ေလ်ာ္ရာမဟုတ္။ I'm not going to the disco — it's just not my scene. ❏ set the scene (for sth) [ IDM ] ၁။ ျပည္တည္သည္။ The opening chapter does little more than set the scene. ၂။ အေျခအေနဖြင့္ေပးသည္။ His arrival set the scene for another argument.

Examples

1. A love scene
2. [opening/final scene] : The opening scene of Macbeth
3. [film/shoot/rehearse a scene] : We have to shoot this scene today.
4. She stood in the doorway surveying the scene.
5. Paintings that depict scenes of country life
6. [scene of] : The scene of the crime/accident/attack
7. [on/at the scene] : The paramedics will be at the scene within a few minutes.
8. [describe/imagine/picture/visualize a scene] : Picture a peaceful scene and try to relax.
9. [scene of] : Eyewitness reports describe a scene of desolation.
10. He is an important figure on the political scene.
11. The music/rave/dance scene
12. [make/cause a scene] : Stop making such a scene!
13. There’s a bad scene at home right now.