单词乎

anticlimax

音标[,ænti'klaimæks]

汉语翻译

n. 突降法, 虎头蛇尾

词型变化

副词:anticlimactically 形容词:anticlimactic 

英语解释

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

例句

  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。

详细解释


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)

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