anticlimax

名词 anticlimax:

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

1. The holiday itself was rather an anticlimax after all the excitement of planning it.
   尽管计划度假时兴致勃勃，而到头来假日本身却颇为扫兴。

an.ti.cli.max

n.（名词）
A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise:
突降：与先前的上升相比呈出令人失望的下降：
例句：
the anticlimax of a brilliant career.
辉煌事业的急转而下

Something trivial or commonplace that concludes a series of significant events:
虎头蛇尾：在一系列重要事件后以微不足道或平淡的结尾：
例句：
After a week of dramatic negotiations, all that followed was anticlimax.
在一星期戏剧性的谈判之后，所有的结尾都是令人扫兴的

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：话语或写作中的精彩，重要内容突然转入荒谬的，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)
.爱开玩笑的非耶鲁人从不厌倦说‘为了上帝，为了国家，为了耶鲁’，这是英语中一个典型的突降法例子.(时代)

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