- If you're writhing on the floor, howling in pain over the splinter in your finger, you're being a tad melodramatic, that is, exaggerated, affected, or histrionic.
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- adj. 夸张的；情节剧的；戏剧似的
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1. It is a thousand times preferable to die somewhere alone and abandoned so that you can die without melodramatic posturing, unseen by anyone.
比这好过一千倍的，是你可以在一个孤僻荒废之所死去，无需夸张作态，也无人问津。
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2. This fits well with the definition of melodramatic given in the American Heritage Dictionary.
这与《美国传统大词典》上melodramatic给出的定义真是不谋而合。
- melodramatic (adj.) 1776; from foreign source of melodrama on model of dramatic. Related: Melodramatically.
melo·dra·mat·ic / ˌmelədrəˈmætɪk ; NAmE ˌmelədrəˈmætɪk / adjective ( often disapproving) full of exciting and extreme emotions or events; behaving or reacting to sth in an exaggerated way 情节剧式的；夸大的；耸人听闻的 ◆ a melodramatic plot full of deceit and murder 充满欺骗和凶杀的耸人听闻的情节 ▶ melo·dra·mat·ic·al·ly / ˌmelədrəˈmætɪkli ; NAmE ˌmelədrəˈmætɪkli / adverb melo·dra·mat·ic / ˌmelədrəˈmætɪk ; NAmE ˌmelədrəˈmætɪk / melo·dra·mat·ic·al·ly / ˌmelədrəˈmætɪkli ; NAmE ˌmelədrəˈmætɪkli /
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