核心畫面

Picture standing still and letting your eyes travel over everything spread out in front of you — hills behind hills, a river, a line of trees — taken in as one whole view rather than as separate things. Scenery can be thought of as the backdrop a place gives you: not one object you point at, but the whole scene your eyes rest on. That is why it behaves like a mass, not a countable thing.

可以想成你停下腳步,讓眼睛慢慢掃過眼前攤開的一切——一層一層的山、一條河、一排樹——不是一件一件去數,而是整片一起收更多收起可以想成你停下腳步,讓眼睛慢慢掃過眼前攤開的一切——一層一層的山、一條河、一排樹——不是一件一件去數,而是整片一起收進眼裡。scenery 就像是一個地方給你的整面背景:不是你指得出來的某個東西,而是眼睛安放在上面的那一整片。也因為它是「整片」,英文裡不說 a scenery、也不說 sceneries。

One branch

眼前攤開的一整片背景

兩個意思都是「一整片背景」,差別只在它是誰造的:一個是這塊土地自己長成的,一個是人在舞台上做出來的。

natural landscape · noun · B1

The mountains, fields, forests, and other natural things you can see in the countryside, especially when they look beautiful.

風景

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

scenerynoun/ˈsiːnəɹi/

  • 1

    View, natural features, landscape.

  • 2

    Stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene.

    • To make a Sketch, or a more perfect Model of a Picture, is in the Language of Poets, to draw up the Scenary of a Play, and the reaſon is the ſame for both; to guide the Undertaking, and to preſerve the Remembrance of ſuch things, whoſe Natures are difficult to retain.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。