英语词汇behind the scenes的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

behind the scenes. Though the origins of this phrase are theatrical, as you would expect, it goes back to the English theater in the time of Charles I, when elaborate paintings were commonly used for the first time to create atmosphere on the stage. Since these paintings were often landscapes, they were called “scenes.” Behind them much of the impor- tant action of a play went on—birth, murders, intrigues, and the like—action that wasn’t represented on the stage. As early as 1658 we find the playwright John Dryden writing on “Things happening in the Action of the Play, and suppos’d to be done behind the Scenes.” It wasn’t long before the phrase began to be used figuratively to describe any important ac- tion hidden from the ordinary spectator, especially in places of power.

词汇	behind the scenes
词源	behind the scenes. Though the origins of this phrase are theatrical, as you would expect, it goes back to the English theater in the time of Charles I, when elaborate paintings were commonly used for the first time to create atmosphere on the stage. Since these paintings were often landscapes, they were called “scenes.” Behind them much of the impor- tant action of a play went on—birth, murders, intrigues, and the like—action that wasn’t represented on the stage. As early as 1658 we find the playwright John Dryden writing on “Things happening in the Action of the Play, and suppos’d to be done behind the Scenes.” It wasn’t long before the phrase began to be used figuratively to describe any important ac- tion hidden from the ordinary spectator, especially in places of power.
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