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anticlimax

音標[,?nti'klaim?ks] 讀音

漢語翻譯


n. 突降法, 虎頭蛇尾

詞型變化:

副詞:anticlimactically 形容詞:anticlimactic 

英文解釋:

名詞 anticlimax:

  1. a disappointing decline after a previous rise
  2. a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
    同義詞:bathos

例句:

  1. The holiday itself was rather an anticlimax after all the excitement of planning it.
    儘管計畫度假時興致勃勃,而到頭來假日本身卻頗為掃興

詳細解釋:


an.ti.cli.max

n.(名詞)
A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise:
突降:與先前的上升相比呈出令人失望的下降:
例句:
the anticlimax of a brilliant career.
輝煌事業的急轉而下

Something trivial or commonplace that concludes a series of significant events:
虎頭蛇尾:在一系列重要事件後以微不足道或平淡的結尾:
例句:
After a week of dramatic negotiations, all that followed was anticlimax.
在一星期戲劇性的談判之後,所有的結尾都是令人掃興的

A sudden descent in speaking or writing from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous or inconsequential, or an instance of it:
突降法:話語或寫作中的精彩,重要內容突然轉入荒謬的,平淡的或其中的一例:
例句:
.Waggish non-Yale men never seem weary of calling ‘for God, for Country and for Yale’ the outstanding single anticlimax in the English language.(Time)
.愛開玩笑的非耶魯人從不厭倦說‘為了上帝,為了國家,為了耶魯’,這是英文中一個典型的突降法例子.(時代)

【引伸】
an.ticlimac.tic
an.ticlimac.tically
adv.(副詞)

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