scene

1、scene 最早是希腊语的"帐篷"，古人在帐篷前搭台演戏，帐篷又指台上的布景，最后落到"场面、一幕"。它和 shine 发光、shimmer 微光同祖，本义就是"能遮阴的东西"。
2、义项从"戏里一幕"扩开：电影的一个场景 → 案发现场 crime scene → 眼前的一幕 a beautiful scene。
3、读 /siːn/，sce- 开头。近义分工：scene 是具体、局部的一景（自然或人工都行）；sight 偏观光看到的风光；scenery 是一地整体的自然风景；view 从高处远处看到；landscape 画面感的内陆风光。

scene

scene: [16] Greek skēné originally meant ‘tent’ (it was related to skiá ‘shadow’, a descendant of the same Indo-European base that produced English shimmer and shine, and so etymologically denoted ‘something that gives shade’). Such tents or booths were used for presenting plays, and eventually the word skēné came to denote the backdrop against which drama is performed.

It passed into English via Latin scaena. The Italian version of the word, scena (itself borrowed into English in the 19th century), has the derivative scenario, which has been acquired by English on two separate occasions: first as scenery [18] and later as scenario [19].
=> scenario, shimmer, shine

scene (n.)

1530s, "subdivision of an act of a play," also "stage-setting," from Middle French scène (14c.), from Latin scaena, scena "scene, stage of a theater," from Greek skene "wooden stage for actors," also "that which is represented on stage," originally "tent or booth," related to skia "shadow, shade," via notion of "something that gives shade," from PIE root *skai- "to shine, flicker, glimmer" (see shine (v.)).

Meaning "material apparatus of a theatrical stage" is from 1540s. Meaning "place in which the action of a literary work occurs" is attested from 1590s; general (non-literary) sense of "place where anything is done or takes place" is recorded from 1590s. Hence U.S. slang sense of "setting or milieu for a specific group or activity," attested from 1951 in Beat jargon. Meaning "stormy encounter between two or more persons" is attested from 1761. Behind the scenes "having knowledge of affairs not apparent to the public" (1660s) is an image from the theater, "amid actors and stage machinery" (out of sight of the audience). Scene of the crime (1923) first attested in Agatha Christie.

1. The area has been the scene of fierce fighting for three months.

这一地区3个月以来不断发生激战。

2. The General does not like non-combatant personnel near a scene of action.

将军不喜欢非战斗部队人员靠近战场。

3. Harris disappeared from the scene as suddenly as he had appeared.

哈里斯突然出现，又突然消失了。

4. He raised the binoculars to his eye again, scanning across the scene.

他再一次把双筒望远镜举到眼前，仔细观察整个现场。

5. It was reminiscent of a scene from a Roman orgy.

这一幕让人想起古罗马荒淫的狂欢宴会。

【sight, scene, scenery, view, landscape】
这组词都有“景色、风景”的意思，其区别是：
sight: 侧重指旅游观光的风光，包括城市景色或自然风光景色。也指人造景物或奇特的景色。
scene: 指具体的、局部的或一时的景色，可以是自然形成的，也可人工造成的。
scenery: 指一个国家或某一地区的整体自然风景。
view: 普通和词，多指从远处或高处所见的景色。
landscape: 多指在内陆的自然风光。

【sight, vision, image, scene】
sight: 视力，眼界，情景，奇观
vision: 远见，想念力，洞察力，眼界
image: 形象，肖像，影像
scene: 景色，景象，舞台指像图画一样映入眼睛view或landscape，但不那么广泛，是整个风景中可以入画的一部分

【setting, site, position, location, scene, locality, place, situation, spot】
这组词都有“地点、位置、场所”的意思，其区别是：
setting: 一般特指戏剧或小说所写的环境或场所。
site: 指或大或小的地方，既可指供专门用途或特定活动的地点，又可指某一事件的地址。
position: 多指物体相对于其他物体所处的位置或状态。
location: 指某物设置的方向或地点。
scene: 常指真实事件或虚构故事发生的地点。
locality: 指某物所处的客观位置和周围地区。
place: 含义广泛，最普通用词，既可指很小的地点，又可指很大很远的地方或场所。
situation: 指物体在其周围环境中所处的位置或状态，侧重地点或场所的环境特征。
spot: 指相对较小的特定地点或事物所在地。