bathos
bathos 英 [ˈbeɪθɒs] 美 [ˈbeɪθɑs]
n. 突降法；陈腐；矫揉造作
- If something starts out serious and then turns trivial, that’s bathos. If you’re watching a serious drama about Poland’s transition to capitalism and it suddenly ends in a giddy car chase, you might remark on the film’s unexpected bathos.
- 请先登录
- n. 突降法；陈腐；矫揉造作
-
1. What a pity, then, that writer-director Darnell Martin reduces these pioneers to the sum of their foibles — greed, lust, drugs — and compacts each tragedy into bathos.
遗憾的是，编辑兼导演达内尔·马丁把故事集中到了这些先驱者的小缺点——贪婪，欲望和毒品上，使每一个紧凑的悲剧都乏善可陈。
-
2. And he'll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance.
他永远也不能从他那粗野无知中解脱出来。
- bathos (n.) "ludicrous anticlimax, a descent from the sublime to the ridiculous," 1727, from Greek bathos "depth," which is related to bathys "deep" (see benthos). The word was introduced in this sense by Pope.
- 请先登录
0 个回复