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scenario

noun
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🔊/səˈnɑːriəʊ/
🔊/səˈnæriəʊ/
(plural scenarios)
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  1.  
    a description of how things might happen in the future设想；方案；预测
    • Let me suggest a possible scenario.我来设想一种可能出现的情况。🔊🔊
    • The worst-case scenario (= the worst possible thing that could happen) would be for the factory to be closed down.最坏的情况可能是工厂关闭。🔊🔊
    • a nightmare scenario最坏的可能
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    • Similar scenarios are playing out across the country.类似情形正在全国各地蔓延开来。
    • The more likely scenario is that interest rates will rise.更可能出现的情况是利率上升。
    • Under any of these scenarios, the company will run into debt.这些情况出现任何一种时，公司都将负债。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • likely
    • plausible
    • possible
    • …
    verb + scenario
    • consider
    • imagine
    • construct
    • …
    scenario + verb
    • play out
    • unfold
    preposition
    • in a/​the scenario
    • under a/​the scenario
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  2. a written outline of what happens in a film or play （电影或戏剧的）剧情梗概synonym synopsis
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    Topics Film and theatreb2
    3. Word Originlate 19th cent.: from Italian, from Latin scena ‘scene’.